CONSTITUTIONAL OR DIRECT ACTION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16762, 11 June 1920, Page 3

CONSTITUTIONAL OR DIRECT ACTION.

The merits of constitutional _ versu* unconstitutional methods are discussed hy the secretary of the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association in the annual report. ' “This question,” he said, “has been, prominently to the fore during the yeail and must bo briefly referred to. The change that has taken place in the last 10 years (a revolution almost) in the attitude of employers .to employees and employees to employers, must be taken into account when studying this question. “I do not think I am over-stating things when I say that faith in constitutional methods is very badly shaken at present. One has only to remember tho history of industrial agitation in a short period named to understand why unconstitutional (so-called) people have almost invariably attained their object in a short space of time, while constitutional (a comparative term) people have had to wait long and patiently for results.

“if the words of those who praise ■ constitutional as against unconstitutional effort were sincere one would' expect the position to be reversed, and I> therefore submit to members, with a due sense of responsibility, that the time has arrived 1 when the Government (our employers) should be faced with the logic of this conclusion and asked in pointed terms: ‘What is going to be done about it?’”