ACTION THREATENED
INVERCARGILL TAXI DRIVERS EARLY HEARING OF DISPUTE SOUGHT P.A. INVERCARGILL, Dec. 5. “ That this meeting, after hearing and considering the report on the taxi dispute given by the national secretary, resolves that if a date is not obtained by Thursday, Decembef 11, for a hearing of this dispute in the Arbitration Court before Christmas, a stop-work meeting be held on December 12 to consider any action which may be considered necessary towards an early settlement of the dispute, and, further, that this meeting instruct the national secretary to urge upon the Government the necessity for setting up a commission to inquire into all aspects of the taxi industry in New Zealand.”
This was a resolution carried unanimously at a stop-work meeting of about 20 Invercargill taxi drivers today Mr D. S. Brown, vice-president of the Southland Drivers’ Union, presided, and the meeting was attended by Mr A. C. Melville, secretary of the New Zealand Drivers’ Union, Mr D. W. Stalker, representing the Southland Trades Council, and a representative of the Labour Department. Mr Stalker assured the men they would have the full backing of the Southland Trades Council provided they acted bn constitutional lines.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26637, 6 December 1947, Page 6
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