GOVERNOR'S BAY ROAD

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 21 September 1938, Page 6

GOVERNOR'S BAY ROAD

MEN ; WILL RETURN TO

WORK

DEPUTATION - TO MINISTER

Following the settlement of the dispute between the men on road works at ; Governor's Bay and the Public Works Department, which was reported to have been reached yesterday morning, the men will return to work. A number of them, who claim that they are, unfit for trj«f.heavy work offering, will be placed oh sustenance, iill more suitable jobs'clin be found for them. The diipute arose over the conditions of. wofkFand the "contract price offered, but it i« understood that those job will do sOUlrtleif'the 'conditions laid down by •the-department. .■: ' i The claims of the men were placed before the"'Mlni«ter> for Labour, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, yesterday morning by a deputation from the New Zealand Workers' Union, the Federar tion of Labour, and the Unemployed Workers' Movement ■ The Minister announced after the deputation had retired that the men had settled their dispute,with the department, but some of the men did not wish to carry on With the heavy work required, as they were not fit for it. It was not the policy of the department to insist on unfit men being employed in navvying occupations, and therefore those whose physical condition was not up to the requirements of the heavy work on the road would be placed on sustenance until more suitable work could be found- for them. " '