PUBLIC SERVICE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 196, 12 April 1932, Page 5

PUBLIC SERVICE

(F^ess Assn.-

POLITICAL ACTION '■ . I t r "i. . 1 1 . (J »• explanation of attitude regardin g* recent conference I ' * .1 1/1 »•: r» j, "justified by results"

-By .Telegraph— Copyright).

WELLINGTON, Monday. In a s.tatem'eri't on behalfi of the [bodi.eS; coricerribd, 'Mfi." J. JL McKenzi'e, secretary of tfie Rost arid Telegraph Asspciatiqn, said that tfie taken in the 'recent corderence b| . findpstrial unigns b'y . me^nfiers of K\s assb'ciatiori, tfie A.maigamated jSjopipty pf Railway ^eryants^'the.Raiiway. TradeSmen'^ Association and .tfie •Engine .'.Dnvbrs, Fjrehieri, apd pfeari- • -P-? spcia.tipn, iri tfie' opinion of fhe four asspciations, was not 'only warrarited 'arid desirable; but was "also jjustified by the fact that tbe outcome presentat'ion ' to fhe Prime Mwi?l;er, tfie Rt. Jlori. G. W- Forbes, bf cpnstructiye prpposals to meet the economic' situation of the country and

a common agreement to seek the cooperation of the eommunity, parti- ' cularly the farmers, in' an attempt to stem the reactioriary legislation pf the Government. Tfie four Government service organisations Were tfie originators and promul'gatofs of 'tfie proposals' which came to be kriown as .tfi'e public service' proposal. ' • Having1 exfiausted every constitutional fiieans'of negotiating with the Governmefit tfie direct employer of the members fepresented fiy 'the organisations, there wa's no other resort as a section of the people opposed . to deflaiion, tfian to act on their statri's as responsible citizens a'nd eo-operate in ari effort with other sections of tbe people who were' pr'epared to fight constructively for the national welf are. * * " " They invited constructive criticism. ' /It was hoped that the collaboration of the farmers would further their objects, which it' was further stated; welT served' in conferririg with the in- i dustrial imipns.