MEN ASKED TO STOP WORK ON MONDAY
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• - CHRISTCHURCH, Mar. ?>: A 'stoppage of woHt next MoiiOay, tlie day of tlie liearing of, the prosecutions on ' charges of 'iheiting : a strilte against ihe president and' seeretafy- ot the Cnnterbury branch of the - -Carpeu-'. ters"' Unioh/ls being reeo'ihm'erided 'to "all affiliations by the. ' Cariterf)uiy Trades Council of the ' Pederatiort or Labour. All unionis'ts affiliated tb' the Federation are being ashed to nttend" a meeting' at 10 a.m.' in' 'Latinier" Squar'c. The decision reeommepding the stoppage of work was rcaehed* at ' a special general meeting of the Trades Council tliis evening. Twenty-one organisations were represented at the meeting. "The decision was made, ndt around the wagcs elaims of the Carpenters? Union which in the niain have been obtained and which have been twiee previously supported by the Council," said the secretary, Mr. A. B. Grant. "The decision was made around a principle important and fundamental •to the movement, that the forces of the State should not be used against work-' igg ( ciabs' "organisations' by bpokesm'eu' m; actfori. . Upon" t/iat principle, ,onM " df niahy, 'the Labour hioveinent, was Innlf. 'The Trades . Cou'ncil " f.eyls; ' "that ' evfeiy "'WOrlcer, rhan. and womah, 'conscious "of . Aheil'"i'esponsibilities,' must- kuppbrt' 'thd UounQil and its affiliated unipps at tli6 meeting on M6nday. " , ; •' 'f he .expeethtion ,of the ' Conndll'" w;iS 'that the. meeting would ' be well ^up'-' •ported by the . vank. aqd. ,iile. QFt.hb0 industrial "itn&'AsU said' *M'r.' Grant;" ♦ ' " •»»»• //njlfit Mif't
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 March 1948, Page 6
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