AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY TROUBLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 120, 22 May 1903, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY TROUBLES.

FEB FBESS ASSOCIATION Meldjubke, May 21. The Strike Suppression Bill passed the Assembly without emendmeot. Efforts to secuio pension rights to the men returning to work were futile. The Premier stated that the question would be dealt with on its merits.

A HEW ZEALAND ANALOGY. STATKMiNT B? BIH J. WABD. Gdristchuboh, May 21. 3ir J. G. Ward, epe iking at a ban* quet, said there was a very dose ant logy between the ease of (ha telegraphist dismissed at Wellington and the striken in Victoria, with the material dißart>nce that the Viotorian strikers had been affi iated for 15 years with the Trades Hall. The right thing would havfc been 15 years ago to tell the railway men that they must not affiliate with the T«dt« Hall. In the oase of the telegraphist, if anything had bam given to enable him ts occupy th« secretaryship cf disorganisation thai admitted itstlf to be poli ioil, then it ought to be put forth that every offiar in a public department should ht?e aa eqml privilege. The people had the power in their own hands to altar any grievanoe. Instead of trying to create a position which would drive tha rail* waya back under the control of three commissioner?, was it not better to itmove grievances and keep £he oontrol of the railways in their own hands,