AN INDIGNANT EMPLOYER
HIS BRUSQUE LETTER. (By Tdi'Sni'plif—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, February 2. A somewhat warmly-worded tetter was read at a meeting of tho Conciliation Council this morning, when the timber workers' dispute was under considerntion. Tho letter in question ivaß liritten to tlio Commissioner (Mr. T. Harlo Giles) by tho manager of MilInr's West Australian Hardwoods Co., Ltd., nnd road as follows:— "Vffi havo a citation re a supposed dispute, which, however, only exists in tho imagination in thp s few of thoso who spmigo on tlio workoi3 for a living. When a now agreement is arrived at ii. is to bo hoped thnl it will be nioro equitably administered than tho present ono has been, as employee* <;eem ablo at present to do as they like, while employers are promptly proceeded against for any breach of the nwauT, however inadvertent, Tho few demands which in tiny way affect this company are so grotesquo in their exoibitnnce that, unless entiielv modified, there will be no hope of a settlement except through the Arbitration Court." "That is hardly bko holding out the. nine h'rmioh, gentlemen," remarked the Commissioner to tho assessor*. I
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1974, 3 February 1914, Page 6
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191AN INDIGNANT EMPLOYER Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1974, 3 February 1914, Page 6
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