P. AND T. ASSOCIATION

NZ Truth, Issue 873, 19 August 1922, Page 4

P. AND T. ASSOCIATION

Stands Firm. In Its Attitude

In the -House,- on Tuesday last, Mr. H. E ! Holland' presented a, petition from the Postal and Telegraph Officers' Association praying that the GovernorGeneral be asked to produce the legal authority under which he had, m the . name of the Government, prohibited the Association's . proposed affiliation / with the Alliance of Labour, or m the alternative withdraw ? his letter de- " clining to allow of such affiliation. . In support of this prayer, • petitioners stated that it had been the 'belief of the officials of the Association that it was of paramount importance m some way to strengthen the organisation, so that fair representations on fair questions would receive fair consideration at the time when the incomes of the public servants were ' threatened and . actually reduced by the passing of the Public Expenditure Adjustment Act of this year. Pacts, logic and arguments, it -was contended, were all on the Side of the public servants at the time, yet the reduction was enforced. But there were other antecedent ' causes which ' | undermined the confidence of the membership m the ability of the association to render the real service for which it was created. These complaints (26 m number) figured also on the petition.