PREMIER AND PRINTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 63, 3 August 1914, Page 3

PREMIER AND PRINTERS.

CilAl'EL" RULES QUESTIONED. UMPULSOUY PREFERENCE REFUSED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, August 1.

A deputation from the Wellington Twr.'gniphiea'. Union waited on the l'n liner to-day to bring under Ms notice the .juestisn of the effect of the ru i-s' of Hie union on the secession of thirteen 'number* of the union employee! in the Government Printing Officefhe matter had already been referred to the Minister (the Hon. F. M. B. Eisner) who declined to sanction the retention of a certain rule of the chapel which practically constituted preference to ur.ioni.-U. The deputation pointed out that the rule in question hud been m i-.iisli'iiee over thirty- years and had I'uvi-r hem challenged by any Minister. All experience showed that whenever unionist..- and iion-uiiicirsts workul together trouble arose.

Mr. Massey: Arc you a-king that the Government should compel these thirteen men to Join the uniojtur in default be di-misM'd'; The I'rcsidf.nL of the Union: In the first place we would like you to make it quite clear that you have no wl.ih for the union to be broken up by more men seceding. 1 want ,\ou to make it quite clear that tkefe men are not going to get better positions through leaving the union. The Hon. Mr. Fisher ' explained the nesitii ii, and the Premier informed the deputation that the' Government could not interfere. As to the suggestion that the Government should compel men either to go back to- the union or leave the employment of the Government Printing Office, it could not be done, ac it would be an act of tyranny no Government could contemplate for on/ moment.