RAILWAY SERVICE.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 898, 22 May 1903, Page 3

RAILWAY SERVICE.

SIR JOSEPH WARD ON THE

STRIKE.

Per Press Association. Christchurch, Inst night-. Sir Joseph Ward, speaking at a social last night, said there was a very c.ose analogy between tho case of tho telegra phis! dismissed at tho Hutt and tho stiikers in Victoria, with the material difference that the Victorian strikers had been affiliated for fifteen years with tho Trades Hall and then were called upon to sever tho affiliation. It war that to which thoy took exception, arid fought to maintain. The ri<d)t thing to have done wits to havo said fifteen years ago to the railway noon that they nine not to uttiii ite with the Trades Hull. 1,1 the case of the telegraphist, if authority dad been given to enable him to have occupied the secretaryship of an organisation that admitted itself to be political, then it ought to be put forth that every officer employed in the public departments of the colony should havo an equal privilege. Tho people lnvd the power in their own hands to alter any grievance, instead of trying to create a position which would drive the railways back under the control of threo commissioners. Was it not better to remove grievances and keep the control of the railways in their own hands ?