P. & T. OFFICERS.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15160, 22 February 1922, Page 5

P. & T. OFFICERS.

POLITICAL ACTIVITY. ALLIANCE OF LABOUR. A large, meeting of the local branch of the P. and T. Officers Association was held in the Miners’ Union Hall on Monday Mr. H. McDonnell presided, and introduced the Dominion President, Mr. J. H. McKenzie, who spoke on the proposal to affiliate with the Alliance of Labour and explained the present need of being linked up with some such body. The first view of •the Alliance tended to give the impression that it .was an organisation for calling strikes. That was a fallacy. Mr. McKenzie pointed out that since the waterside workers had joined up with the Alliance of Labour there had been no strike on the waterfront. There was a big body behind the Government forcing them to cut down salaries and wages. The Government in turn forced the heads of departments who pushed on until the worker on the bread and butter line was the one to shoulder the burden. Yet £750,000 would he remitted to payers of land and income tax as a rebate for prompt payment, that amount being made up out of a cut in wages on those least able to bear it. The meeting being purely for the purpose of discussion prior to a ballot, the only was one of thanks to the speaker.