PROMPT ACTION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19994, 20 July 1939, Page 7

PROMPT ACTION

ANTI-STRIKE LAW UNION DEREGISTERED MANURE FIRMS' WORKERS OPERATIVE TO-MOEIiOW MINISTER'S DESIRES (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day.

The Minister of Labour, the lion. P C. Webb, has taken action under the industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1939, which was passed by Parliament yesterday, to cancel the registration ol the Otahuhu Chemical Manure Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers as from to-morrow, namely, the .date of the publication of the notice of cancellation in the Gazette. This automatically cancels the Northern Industrial District chemical manure workers’ award dated October 17, 1938, and deprives the workers in the industry in the district of the benefits of the machinery and other privileges, including compulsory membership of the union, under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act'. 1925, and amendments. This does not affect the right of workers to negotiate for an agreement under the Labour .Disputes Investigation Act, 1913, and, notwithstanding the action taken the Minister said he desired to state that the Government was anxious to assist in bringing about a settlement of the unfortunate dispute that existed in the Auckland district and would do its utmost to bring the parties together with this object in view.