SUPPORT FOR “SCRIM”
BROADCAST TALKS DUNEDIN WATERSIDERS CRITICISM OF PRESS (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Support for the Sunday broadcasts of the Director of Commercial Broadcasting, Mr. C. G. Scrimgeour, was unanimously given by the Dunedin waterside workers at the monthly stop-work meeting of the local branch of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union yesterday, when a resolution of appreciation of “Uncle Scrim’s” addresses and of censure on the activities of the press and the New Zealand Farmers’ Union was carried. The resolution was as follows: “That this meeting of waterside workers supports the "man-in-the-street’’ session conducted by Uncle Scrim; that they believe that instructive addresses are in the interests of the workers of New Zealand; that they support whole-heartedly Uncle Scrim in his efforts for the workers, and that f his meeting deplores the attempts of the daily press and the Farmers’ Union to cause political and economic discord when all our efforts should be towards unification of the nation.” The resolution was carried unanimously.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20114, 7 December 1939, Page 10
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167SUPPORT FOR “SCRIM” Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20114, 7 December 1939, Page 10
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