POLITICAL INFLUENCE.
Referring to the "Government stroke" accusations against employees at the Addington Workshops, the Christchurch "Press" says that no matter how strict a disciplinarian a foreman may be, if he finds his authority set at naught by men possessing some political "pull," if those whom he finds it necessary to dismiss are reinstated on the representation of some member of Parliament, the discipline of his department, and with it, its efficiency, must suffer. The inquiry that is to be held should throw much useful light on the conduct of the workshops, from the point of view both of the efficiency of the work and its cost, as compared with private workshops. But it will be of much greater value if it results in the limitation—abolition is too much to hope for—of the political influence that is admitted by the men themselves to be so rampant and so potent at Addington.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3103, 28 January 1909, Page 4
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151POLITICAL INFLUENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3103, 28 January 1909, Page 4
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