FIRST DISSENTIENT VOICE
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WATERSIDE SECRETARY'S ,IJ d'" 'ATTITUBE" ' » MR. F. P. WALSH'S REPORT
By Telegraph—
WELLINGTON, March 13. "I can't see the workers accepting the Walsh report as the policy of the t"ade union movement," said the se.cretary of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union (Mr. Hill) commenting on the recent report of Mr. F. P. Walsh, the representative of the Federation of Labour on the Economic Stabilfsation Commission. "There are many features in the report which will oe of benefit to the movement, but the support it has received from the employers' organisations is like the 'kiss of death' — it will frighten the workers oft more positive points in the report." When Mr. Hill was asked for comment, he said he felt v iluctant to enter the Press on the matter, as the report was to be considered by the executive of the Federation of Labour, This was a decision of the national council of the Federation. However, in view of the widespread publicity given to the report, there were many. people who assumed that it was the expressed policy of the union movement.
As a member of the executive of the federation, Mr. Hill added, he could not state the iederation's ^policy, but as secretary of tne New Zealand Waterside Union, he would say the support given to Mr. Walsh by Chambers of Commerce and such bodies would do more to retard production than to increase it. He could safely say that his union would not accept the report in the light in which the employers had received it. The principle of stabilisa tion had been accepted, but the question whether it shduld coiitinue and how it should apply, was a. matter for the federation to determine.Continuity- and increase bf production were necessary and industrial peace was desirable, but Mr. Hill believed that, under the present relationship be tween capital and labour, the workers would not respond to the pleas of the employers for increased production. It was regrettable that the report by Mr Walsh had received so much publicity in view of the fact that. the Federation of Labour had not yet reached a de cision in the matter. '
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 March 1946, Page 2
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