GENERAL LABOURERS' GRIEVANCES.
STRONG' MEASURES' SUGGESTED, IBj TeletrraDn.-Prosa Aasociatlon.l Christchurch, April 19. A. largely-attended meeting of the General Labourers' Union was held to-night to consider the action of the City • Council last night in refusing to admit al deputation from the union on behalf of labourers employed by the council, who are alleged to have, a grievance re hours' and wages. It was decided to send back the same deputation to the next meeting of the council. The chairman stated, if the council refused to receive the deputation a second titue, the workers should take action to make the names of tho councillors stink in the nostrils of the ratepayers throughout New Zealand. ° Mr. Paterson, secretary of the union, stated that, if the council refusqd to receive the deputation, he was prepared to assist in forcing a way to tho council chamber in defence of his constitutional rights, and to compol the council to listeii to tho deputation, even if members were removed bjr tite police,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 796, 20 April 1910, Page 6
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166GENERAL LABOURERS' GRIEVANCES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 796, 20 April 1910, Page 6
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