CORRESPONDENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1920, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

A DELEGATE’S STATEMENTS.. (To the Editor.) Sir, —The statements made by Mr F. Turley, secretary of the West Coast Timber Workers Union at a conference of -Ministers of tin? Cabinet and,members of the Timber Workers’ Federation bold at Wellington recently have caused not only*surprise, but much indignation locally. Members of tlie Executive Committee of the Union state emphatically that Mr Turley had no authority from the Union to inform the Ministei of Forestry and other Ministers of the Cabinet that any mill dealing wjtli tlio Great Western Timber Company’s timber at Okarito would be declared a nonunion mill. Members of the Executive and likewise the general body of timber workers in this district rather welcome the proposed extension of the sawmilling industry at Okarito, realising, as they do, that tin' operations of the Company will open iq) for them additional avenues of employment. The workers generally are very much opposed to the opinions of Mr Turley, which they declare to be not only unwarranted, hut also prejudicial to the best interests of the district, and to those engaged in the sawmilling industry.—We are, etc,—

JOHN .MARKS. W. H. AGNF.W, H. L. BARLTROP, J. DAVERN. (Members of the West Coast- Timbei Workers’ Union.)