POST OFFICE EMPLOYEES

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1930, Page 9

POST OFFICE EMPLOYEES

CONTROLLING OFFICERS’ GUILD. ANXIEtY IN NEW PLYMOUTH. The proposal that has been launched to create in the post and telegraph service a guild with a membership to be drawn exclusively from the ranks of executive officers was dealt with at a large meeting of. the New Plymouth headquarters section of the P. and T.‘Employees’ Association on Wednesday night. Mr. J. H. McKenzie, general secretary of the association, addressed the meeting, which was attended by a large majority of controlling officers. The meeting was informed that a provisional committee of senior controlling officers of the Wellington office had been set up to advance the movement. and the more junior controlling officers were to be invited to enrol later. An air- of mystery shrouds the vague breakaway movement, and the members of the old organisation view with apprehension the sudden awakening by senior controlling officers to shake off the lethargy shown to the association in past years and to become enthused with a creative spirit in their own section’s interests. The New Plymouth members’ viewpoint is expressed in the following motion which the meeting carried unanimously: “This- meeting representative of controlling officers and rank and file members of°the New Plymouth headquarters section reaffirms the members’ unswerving loyalty to the old organisation.” PROTESTS FROM THE WAIKATO. REGRET AT SECESSION PLAN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, Last Night. Strong exception to the secession movement on the part of higher officials of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph service to form an executive officers’ guild was taken at a meeting of the Waikato and King Country section of the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association at Hamilton to-day. Although several controlling officers were present the following motion wan C-rried without dissent: “That this meeting expresses its regret at the action of controlling officers in the ser--vice in attempting to form a separate organisation and trusts that wiser counsels will yet prevail so that the existing machinery of the association may be utilised to-advance the claims and safeguard the rights of all members, irrespective of their positions ill the department.”