ALLEGED GOVERNMENT TYRANNY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 27 September 1907, Page 2

ALLEGED GOVERNMENT TYRANNY.

Per Press Association. Christcliurch, Last Sight. '< At a meeting of the brunch committee of the Amalgamated Society of Railway -V Servants held last evening the follow- *' ing resolution was carried unanimously) 'That this committee of the Canterbury ' 1 branch oi' the Amalgamated Society uf .Railway Servants considers that the bus- i pension of our chairman, Mr. J. W. '->fe -UcCullough, for having expressed his political opinions at a meeting of in : association of which he is a member is unworthy;of tiie Government of a so-called democratic country, and borders on tyranny and oppression of rail-' way men, who should be free to their "■■■. own opinions and to the right to express «hem." The members oi the conujiittee all spoke in very strong terms of the system by which railway men were " treated differently from othor citizens of the Dominion in respect to political matters, It was alleged that so long as their attitude was favorable to the : Government in power no objection was raised to the men taking part in politics, but directly they ventured to assert their independence they were taken to task by the authorities and treated in a way that was quite unworthy of the iiiberal party. ' ■ At an Independent Political Labour " ■League social to-night reference • was made to the suspension"" of Mr. J. A. < JlcCullough, tinsmith at the Addington ' Workshops, on account of having publicly i criticised the Ward Administration, (ind the following motion was carried unanimously:-—"That this meeting of citizens of Chriatchurch and surrounding district enters an emphatic protest against the harsh and arbitrary manner in wlitoh $lO Government has elected lo | suspend ife M|Uullough."