Union Ban On Firm’s Jobs

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31121, 26 July 1966, Page 1

Union Ban On Firm’s Jobs

The ban on jobs on which Masonry Services, Ltd., of Christchurch, was block-laying by’ labour-only contracts would be effective from this morning, said the president of the Canterbury Trades Council of the Federation of Labour (Mr R. A. Hill) yesterday.

Mr Hill said that this was the decision of a meeting in the Trades Hall yesterday among members of the executive of the Trades Council and the Canterbury Carpenters’ Union.

The ban could affect about 30 houses almost immediately, said the managing director of Masonry Services, Ltd. (Mr H. P. Oberg). •There is no doubt that the Federation of Labour is trying to make an example of Masonry Services. But they’ve picked the wrong one."

The nan was illegal and Incorrect, he said, because on none of its jobs was the firm block-laying by labour-only contracts.

“I think the Federation of Labour is just being foolish. Mr Hill made the accusation against my company, and it’s up to him sooner or later to prove it to us and to the public. It’s no use his resorting to extreme measures about something he hasn’t actually established. Mr Oberg said he thought Mr Hill meant by his statement that the ban would apply to all the jobs on which Masonry Services, Ltd., was working.