INVERCARGILL MOTION
CARRIED AT MASS MEETING. SOME OPPOSITION EXPRESSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL. November 20. A motion requesting the Government to relax the import restrictions because of widespread unemployment which their continuance is likely to create among wholesale and retail workers was carried without dissent at a mass meeting of Invercargill employees tonight. The attendance of about 650, which included a fair number of women, followed with close attention the short discussion about the possibility of dismissals of staffs after the Christmas holidays because of the shortage of stocks in warehouses and retail shops. While there were a number of speeches advocating the action which was finally taken, some opposition was expressed, one speaker declaring that the employers were behind the meeting and that 75 per cent of those present had been coerced to attend. These statements were denied by the convenors.
Mr W. M. C. Denham, M.P., was present, but he was not permitted to address the meeting, the chairman ruling that no politics could be introduced into the proceedings.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1939, Page 4
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171INVERCARGILL MOTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1939, Page 4
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