Dissatisfied Carpenters Declare Go-slow

Chronicle (Levin), 12 February 1949, Page 7

Dissatisfied Carpenters Declare Go-slow

^ " AUCKLAND, Feb. 11. Carpenters and joiners in the Auckland metropolitan area have declared a go-slow poliey against those employers who are stauding fast by the terms of the recent award issued by the Court of Arbitration. This deeisior. was made. at a stopwork meeting- attended by ovep 1300 niembers in the .Town .Hall,. tp-dpy.. Twenty members of the Huntly sud- : branch which had declared a .pne-dav . • stoppage, .attended the Auckland, 'riieet-. ing" . Eesolutions were cajried tp iniplement the unionists' national conference decision to operate a go-slow policy against employers who fail to observe the conditions "of the '1947 suburban" work clause and who fail to pa}7, a wage rate of 4s hourly and, plso demandina. that the Labour Federation's wage ap plication be for an increase of £2 weekly. , The meeting demanded of the Government an amendment to the stabilisation regulations to permit wages to increase to the same degree as proiits. After the carpenters declared their go-slow policy, the president of the Auckland Master Builders' Associa tion, Mr. J. M. Whittaker, issued a statement calling on builders " At all costs to resist the unwarranted attempt at extortion by direct action initiated by an unscrupulous minority." He said the constitutional course for the union to follow was to await the result of the application lodged;'for Vgeneral feview of wage margins. ' Builders would ueeu the support of the Government .and other employers in aiiy aetipn they might decide to take at a meeting o-n Monday night. "Meanwhile he appealed to employers to resist the demands uade by the employees.