N.Z. WORKERS’ UNION
CONCERN AT RAILWAY STOPPAGES. <By ' Telegraph—ter tress Association) WELLINGTON, September 15. Concern is felt by the New Zealand Workers’ Union as the result of the reuoinmeiidations of the Government Railways Board that work on the six railway lines under construction should be stopped, and in an interview today the General Secretary of the Union, Mr Arthur Cook urged that the. Government should immediately say wlvat it was going to do with the men who would be thrown out of employment. If tlie recommendations were adopted by Parliament, he suggested that as a means of reducing the present high costs of construction per mile, the Government should allow gangs of competent railway construction workers to form contract parties and work on co-operative contract principles.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1931, Page 5
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126N.Z. WORKERS’ UNION Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1931, Page 5
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