OFFICERS SURPRISED AND DISMAYED.

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

OFFICERS SURPRISED AND DISMAYED.

AN IMPOSSIBLE POSITION. When the subject matter of the speech was referred by your correspondent to a well-known postal officer (an active member of the association) ho said that what was said was emphatically true. "I have never known during my seventeen years' connection with the Department," ho said, "a more unsatisfactory stat« of affairs. It is not an exaggeration to state that 90 per cent. pi the service is dissatisfied with the way things have been going on. The Commissioners seem to have brought an atmosphere of discontent into our building. I myself said at first that the feeling would of its own accord be dispelled, but the fact is that the service is now more wholly up against the Commissioners than ever. The latter have taken up an autocratic attitude, at which even the heads of the Departments have expressed surprise and dismay. Whereas before responsible officers were consulted in certain matters affecting the Department, w© are now passed over, and rules and regulations made without apparently the least care whether the service is discontented or dissatisfied."