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INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

WOMEN'S 1 COUNCIL AND .TRANSPORT WORKERS. The following letter from the Transport Workers' Advisory Board was received by the Women's National Council (Nd 1 ' 11 !?" ton Brnnch) in reply to certain communications dealing with preventive mcaKtntfl against s'.rrikos and lock-outs. A reply has not- yet been received from (lie Euployers' Federation:— ■> "I am in receipt of your communication of tho 7th instant in. reference to a resolution carried by the AYollingioii •Branch of the New Zealand National Council of Women. In reply thereto, I beg to inform-you that in any of tho industrial associations of transport work* en of which I have the honour of being secre'.'nry, oVorv conciliatory method has been exhausted before what you term "extreme measures" have been taken. This is provod by the fact that there has been fewer strikes amongst the tran6poru workers of New Zealand during the wr" period-and since the armistice has been signed than amongst any of tho transport workors of the world. Recently, however', the policv of tho lock-out lias been adopted by the employers, and ■we often find ourselves faced wr»h great difficulties in cafrvinp on the indus.ry "I am quite in agreement with your council that in all industrial disputes tho women and children are the greater sufferers, and it- is uhrough tho rerogmtion of this fact (hat the Transport Workers' Association has, on even- occasion, dona its utmost, to avoid any serious dislocation of industry. I desire also 10 remind your council that the high cost of the necessaries of life, and.the eon-s-tuent lowering of the standard ot living, has resulted in great economic hardships being endured 'by the wives and children of tho wage workers. T< therefore has become an imperative, duly ot ths. Transport Workers' Association _to do everything possible in order 0 maintain a wage, for the men employed in the industry, which will ensure that liho women and children will receive sufficient of the'necessaries of life to maintain a reasonable standard of living. - "I have also to remind your council that it is our duty to see Vhat the transport workers are enabled to provide an education for their children which will givo them, at least, the opportunity of becoming good and useful enlizcns, and as our'prwont educational system doe= not provide, or even .help, in the main enanco of our children while they are being educated, such maintenance must necossanlj come out of the workers' "ages. It must then be clearly evident! to the New Zealand Council of Women that, as the Transport Workers' Association, .along with other industrial organisations 111 tup Dominion are doing all that is human \y possible (0 provide the means bvvh.ch our children -can, be alll } nl ° secure the economic needs of ihese cliilUren and their mothers, that they are always tho first to rcccivo.our consideration in all matters affecting the soUement of industrial disputes. "With reference to the publication of essential facts in connection. wiA any •industrial dispute, I beg to 11 forml jon that tho transport workers haje never withheld the facts from the public, nor ii anv ntention of doing so in tho fnluro (Signed) James Roberts. Secretary."

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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 33, 3 November 1920, Page 3

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INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 33, 3 November 1920, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 33, 3 November 1920, Page 3

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