"THE GOVERNMENT STROKE."

Shannon News, 25 November 1924, Page 2

"THE GOVERNMENT STROKE."

PULE ELECTORS -'CRITICISED.

The manner in which repairs are | beftig efiected to the' telegraph aud | telephone lines in some parts of urn Feildmg district where tins' work js> i being carried out was severely criticised hy Mr J. Bradley a.t the Fanners’ Union meeting ,at l-eliding. rm said that it was a disgraceful example of work ueing done without me proper supervision Qf those engaged. He thought-it a matter which the provincial executive could take up, out he later moved that action be taken.' There were generally live men in,one gang, two doing the work and tinev. looking on. He believed in a fair day’s work lor a fair wage. Them was no comparison,-- he said, between the ei'licieht Inanner in which the Power Board’s electric poles were erdeted and the haphazard manner of the post and telegraph gangs. The chairman seconded, the motion, and it was resolved that tile Minister in charge of the Post and Telegraph Department be written to pointing out the unsatisfactory state of a nan s existing in connection with -the post and telegraph repair gangs in country districts who are by no. means fulfilling their task in an economical and efficient manner, and that from observations made there appears to he no proper control' to ensure men giving their full paid time to the work.