NO SYNDICALISM.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 698, 6 May 1916, Page 2

NO SYNDICALISM.

I RAILWAYMEN'S ACTION. i ■ iTHE amalgamation proposal. NOT AIMED AT PUBLIC INTERESTS. Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 0. Sir H. Hampton, president of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, in an interview with a reporter to-day, said that in view of ! certain statements ill the Press, he I wished to slate thai no outside labour organisation had suggested to J the Society of Railway Servants that I the latter should join with them for [the purpose of adopting Syndicalist [Methods of organisation. j "II seems to he imagined," he added, "that railway servants wish to combine in order, as it were, to hold up the general public at the I point of the pistol. In any action we jniay lake, either as a separate origanisalion or in conjunction with (any other bodies, the public may 'rest assured that no such action will jbe taken for our own selfish ends, and nothing will be done or agreed Ito by us which is opposed to the j welfare of the general public."