BUILDING TRADESMEN
STOPWORK MEETING IN AUCKLAND PROTEST AGAINST FEATURES OF AWARD. VENTILATION OF GRIEVANCES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. This Day. Practically all. building undertakings in Ihe Auckland metropolitan area were suspended this morning while carpenters, and joiners and allied tradesmen held a stopwork meeting in the Town Hall, to protest primarily against certain features of the award issued recently by the Arbitration Court. Mr J. B. McCormack, president of the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union, presided over an attendance of 2,500. The men ventilated their grievances from various angles, and after registering protests in a series of resolutions decided to return to work this afternoon. The resolutions replied to a protest by the Auckland Master Builders’ Association against the holding of a stopwork meeting, stressed the need for the introduction by the Government of its holiday with pay Bill, commented on the serious loss of wages by men through wet weather, and endorsed a proposal that the Government should take ever The entire erection of State houses. The attendance overflowed the Town Hall Concert Chamber and had to be transferred to the Town Hall proper.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1939, Page 6
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184BUILDING TRADESMEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1939, Page 6
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