DISLOYAL WORKERS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 10, 27 January 1937, Page 5

DISLOYAL WORKERS

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Reason for Dismissal of Dockyard Workers INSTANCES QUOTED

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^Received 27, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 26. In the House of Commons, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare, in reply to the Labour censure motion on the dockyard dismiesals, said • there had been a series of incidents in dockyards during the past two year,s forcing the Admiralty to redouble its precautions. Nuts and so on had been found in the machinery of the Leander and they must have been inserted daliberately A needle was found driven into an electrie cable on the Cumberland and the damage was clearly premediated and malicious. Inquiries had led to the concluaion that there were men in the dockyard ■servico whose actions and aasociatious forced the Governmeht to distrust their loyalty and believe that the dockyard was unsafe as long as they were employed. Cabinet, he said, had approved the action taken. There was no question of mere political views and no desire to interfere with personal opinions. The fact was that certain men could not be trusted. The Government would have liked to put the matters to the men concerned and give them an opportunity of replying, but the information was necessarily secret and was obtained from sources that could not be disclosed.