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NEPOTISM CONDEMNED PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF MONOPOLIES ADVOCATED. Bj Telegraph—Prow Association— Uoprrlga’ "Times" and Sydney "Sun” Services. (Received May 19, 6.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 19. A conference of the Railway Clerks’ Association, which has 29,000 members, was hold in Edinburgh, and protested against Lord Claude Hamilton s action in importing an American manager for tho Groat Eastern Railway They condemned the nepotism and favouritism engendered by a close e partmental system, which prevented the clerks’ promotion. The conference advocated the public ownership of land, mines, railways and other monopolies.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8737, 20 May 1914, Page 8
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90RAILWAY CLERKS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8737, 20 May 1914, Page 8
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