WHAT WORKERS REALISE
' ' Iii tlie rnain worlcers have realisea there is little justification for stoppages iix industry at the present time," saia Hoii. A. MeLagan wken reportmg lor the national ^executive to the annuai conference of the New Zealand Federation of Labour. "The uiiioiis restraining action today — apart from the need to safeguard life or resist victiniisation— 7-are the unions wliich have fought in the past and will iight again to.morrow if circumstanees denrand it,"' he said. "Ample mackinery exists, for tiro settlement of disputes and the natjooaJ executive and national council have. repeatedly requested that . negotiationg be initiated before a stoppage deveiops and not aftervvards. The only people who can benelit by an unnecessaiy stoppage are the opponents of Labour, They will not liesitate- to incite strife j in the hope that the public will bb ! antagonised and thus serve the end the | opponents of trade uuions have in view I — the undermining and defeating of the J Labour Goyerninent. "
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 June 1946, Page 7
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