DEADLOCK WITH COMMISSIONERS A SERIOUS POSITIONS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13420, 18 March 1914, Page 5

DEADLOCK WITH COMMISSIONERS A SERIOUS POSITIONS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Wellington, March 17

ft is some months since an interview between tho Public Service Commission.' era and the executive of the Post, and Telegraph Oince rs'. Association came •abruptly to an end because the Commissioners refused to listen to. further representations until certain allegations Itad been withdrawn. Tim© has not Healed the breach —rather the reverse —for the chairman of tho Post, and Telegraph Assocatioiv executive,, spoke very candidly at tho Wellington mailmen's social regarding the friction with the new heads of the Public Service. . Ho declared that the men did not want the Commissioners- The association had strongly opposed the Public Service Bill, and the employees of tho Department were eagerly awaiting the time when they would again com|> \inder Ministerial control. A S a result of his frank utterances, showing that, tho position is ]ust as acute to-day ac when the Post and Telegraph Association's executive retired from the abortive interview, the secretary of the Department (Mr W. R. Morris), who heard the speech, undertook to make a fresh, effort to bring about a better understanding. This is not the only big difficulty to be faced by the Commissioners in the near future, the general body of'public servants being gravely dissatisfied _ with some of their autocratic decisions in deciding appeals against classification.