The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. CIVIL SERVANTS RIGHTS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 September 1913, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. CIVIL SERVANTS RIGHTS.

The sojici-tude of Al.r Yeiteh, M.V. (as expressed on this week's ■Parliamentary Order Paper) for "flic restoration ol lull civic and political lights to Civil. Servants" is misplaced: llie bar upon tlieni is as nnicli for their own good as for I hat ol I lie community. The politically-minded Civil Servant is a political nightmare lo patriots who stand for impersonal politics, for in most cases the agitating Civil Servant is ai work to sharpeJ) his own axe while his dupes turn the grindstone. Those observers who weie able to watch the course id' political campaigning in Wellington from eight lo eleven vears ago will recall sonic sirikiag instances in proof of what we relcr to. The political worker amum'st Civil Servants has been nr:cii in evidence on many occasions since the liar against nciive campaigning wa< placed upon him: ik" breaches id' the provision i\> c?«hm 1 one of the inidcn ia ble wnm..'; pi ) - mil led by Ihe Seddon (»o '< Ii • inenl, in thai it did not ( i-v\'ent ovci'l a lid covert pol! I n | acl in. 1x * 111 '4 taken by ccrlau Wellmgton Civi! Servaui-: who ch'eicd behind ihe proper pol i! i I chariot. When I lie W'a rd Cabinet came into being I his abuse was subdued, and it is io be hoped t hal (lie abuse never will be revived. l)iu bad as it was, i he proport ions it assumed were small by comparison wilh (he n a nietica I possibilities the Civi! Seivice possessed for such act ions. Fort u 11a leiy a very grea I majority of I lie Civi! Service of New Zealand is prepared lo accept ils privileges and rest rid ions as just counterpoises, and lo leave agitation to the few. There "are" privileges of pay and annua! leave and superannuation attaching io Coveriinieiil employ liiai come to very few of (lie labourers in private employ: and from Iliese it is noi asking 100 nnu-li" when the State says thai ils employers shall aoI dictate to (lie Slate concerning the conduct of the Slate's business.