STOPWORK MEETING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1939, Page 6

STOPWORK MEETING

PLANNED BV AUCKLAND CARPENTERS PROTEST AGAINST NEW AWARD. ALL BUILDING TRADESMEN INVITED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. June 18. Carpenters and joiners in Auckland will hold a stop-work meeting in the Town Hall if it is available on Wednesday morning to protest against the general conditions of the award recently issued by the Arbitration Court. This decision was the result of a resolution carried unanimously at a special meeting of the Auckland union today, when Mr J. B. McCormack presided over an attendance of about 300 members. Issuing a statement tonight. Mr J. G. Kennerley, secretary of the union, said it was not expected that a strike would develop from the stop-work meeting. He said the meeting would probably last some time, but the men would probably return to wo.rk in the afternoon. “There is no wish to embarrass the Government in any way,” the official report stated, “but there is a unanimous feeling that a strong protest must be made and the only way this can be brought to the attention of the author! ■ ties and the public is to hold a stopwork meeting. All tradesmen engaged in the building trade are concerned, as the carpenters’ award is usually quoted as a criterion, and therefore they have all been invited to attend the protest meeting.” •

STATE HOUSING CONTINUED HOLD-UP IN WELLINGTON. OTHER JOBS NOT AFFECTED. WELLINGTON, This Day. The position on the Government housing jobs, where carpenters and labourers .ceased work on Thursday, is unchanged today. It is reported that othe’r building tradesmen are pot directly concerned in the dispute and are working normally. Mr P. E. Warner, secretary of the Wellington Trades Council, said a meeting of the Building Trades executive and the council executive would be held tonight to consider the position at Karori, where a cessation of work has occurred. Meantime arrangements are continuing for a stop-work meeting on Wednesday.