FLAXMILLS AND TYPHOID.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1009, 12 October 1912, Page 3

FLAXMILLS AND TYPHOID.

EMPLOYEES POINT OF

VIEW

Mr Stove, secretary of the Flaxmills’ Employees Union, and Mr Robertson publish a statement in reply to Mr Broad’s of which the lollowing is a slight condensation; " Does Mr Broad contend that the Association and the millers generally were not aware of insanitary and nnsatistactory conditions at some of the mills. Sureiy he is not going to try and logically argue that the miller does not know the conditions pertaining to his own mill. I would draw Mr Broad’s attention to the published report ol the deputation from the Flax Union that waited on Mr Laurensou when Minister for Labour ; also to an open letter to the Hon. J. G. Millar through the columns of the Palmerston Standard in 1911, and further to Mr Justice Sun's m-moranda to the flax workers’ first award of IQO7, all of which goes to show that the flax worker has been through every legitimate channel trying to better his accommodation ior tb- past live year-. “ Concerning the statement made by Mr D. Green to the Pose representative with regard to the first case ot typhoid, we admit that the man was under the doctor for kidney trouble before going to work at the Maitai mill, but is Mr Green going to suggest that the doctor seut a man suffering with typhoid back to a flaxmill to work. I would point out that he worked two weeks uot live days before developing symptoms of fever.” Mr Stove also contradicts the statement that the accommodation at Mr Green’s mill is second lu none in the Mauawatu. He regrets that the report which the Government recently obtained as 10 the conditions of the mills was uot laid upon the table of the House.