WELLINGTON BY-ELECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1918, Page 2

WELLINGTON BY-ELECTION.

I MR. MACK'S CANDIDATURE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Sept. 21. [ Mr. Hampton, national president of the Amalgamated Society of Hailway Servants, lias replied to the protest of the Grey Labor representation committee against the vote-apli) ting tactics of Mr. ifeck, .secretary of the society, b.v standing as an independent labor eanili date for Wellington Central, lie stales that Mr. Hack became a candidate at the request of a number of the. workers, who have conscientious objections 0 joining the Labor ifarty a-s at present instituted. The Kailway Society is not 1 political organisation and contains men i! ail shades of politics. Mr. Hampton takes exception to the 'suggestion that the executive exercises j,autocratic censorship over tho political [opinions of railway servants and the t society, especially as the demand for |full civil and political rights for all railwaymen is a prominent plank in their platform. If Mr. Mack is elected for Wellington ' Central he understands it may involvo reconsideration of his appointment as secretary of the Railway Servants' Society. Wellington, Sept. 21. In reply to a question about the protest of the local branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants against his candidature ani demanding his resignation, Mr. Mack said that as secretary he was concerned only with' the society's executive and his- position should come before the executive in the ordinary course, ;