"SHUT UP."

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1361, 12 February 1912, Page 6

"SHUT UP."

PUBLIC SERVANTS IN POLITICS. Speaking at tho Opera House last evening, Proiessor Mills said that he had socn a letter from the Minister for Kailways (Mr. Miliar) to tho Amalgamated Society of Railway Scrvints, not living them that if tho railway servants entered into a Federation of Transport Workers lie (.Mr. Millar) would deny them any further recognition at the hands of tho Government. "And," continued tho lecturer, "tin; railway men have not struck yet. 1 want ro say to the railway servants of New Zealand (hat so long as they think more of recognition at the hands of a politician like Millar than they do of their own associates in transport service, so long will they bo denied the rights.of New Zealand citizenship, and they will deserve all they get." Tho Government, Professor Mills continued, made ownership of a great transport service an excuse, for disenfranchising tho men engaged in it. This was an outrage, and for the workers to submit to if was to betray the-'r own class and their own country. Dealing further with th> political restrictions nlaced upon public servants in this country—school tochers among the number-Professor Mills declared that as soon as a man, in qualifying for a public post, got a little sense, he had to "shut up."