APPEAL TO WORKERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1940, Page 7

APPEAL TO WORKERS

MADE BV MR FRASER NEED OF LOYAL EFFORT. ALTERNATIVE TO HELP HITLERISM. WELLINGTON. This Day. The waterfront dispute in Auckland was referred to inferentially by the Deputy-Prime Minister, Mr , Fraser, in the course of his address at the recruiting rally in the Wellington Town Hall last evening. Those who could join up with the forces should do so, Mr Fraser said, but everybody else should do their best. He appealed to the industrial workers of the Dominion to do everything possible in the factories, the workshops, on the wharves and on the farms to give 100 per cent efficiency, because a great deal depended on them. “If we do not do it we are helping ,i the Germans to fight our own country." Mr Fraser said. “I won’t believe that there is any section of workers in this country who will willingly and knowingly place themselves by their action by hindering the British and New Zealand efforts deliberately on the side of Hitlerism and Nazism.”

After referring to the way members of the Transport Workers’ Union in Britain had volunteered for work in the transport of the British Expeditionary Force to France, Mr Fraser said the men on the waterfront in Wellington and Lyttelton had helped excellently when the convoys left and at Lyttelton had worked all night. "We give them full credit for that and hope that that spirit will prevail,” he added.