ABATTOIR HOLD-UP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1942, Page 3

ABATTOIR HOLD-UP

GOVERNMENT TAKES ACTION SECTION OF UNION CONCERNED DEREGISTERED. VERY SERIOUS VIEW TAKEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. An announcement that that section cf the freezing workers’ union employed at the Auckland city abattoirs had been deregistered yesterday was made last night by the Minister of Labour, Mr Webb. The Government, he added, took a very serious view of these holdups, and though it would not flinch in its determination to do justice to those employed it would at the same time insist on the law being observed. Mr Webb said the freezing works industry had been declared an essential industry under the National Service Emergency Regulations. That might be considered by some to be an extreme step, but the circumstances in which the country was now placed demanded nothing short of complete unity in the war effort. The least the workers of this country could do was to give of their best in the industries in which they were engaged. Their best was little enough compared with what the men at the front were going through to preserve the liberty that gave the right to unite to maintain a standard unparalleled 'in the history of the world. “I am positive the actions of the few responsible for instigating these troubles does not meet with the desires of the great mass of the workers of this country,” said Mr Webb. _ “I would again appeal to the sober-minded men and women to realise that there mustbe only one Government. The Government will not tolerate a continuation of these stop-work tactics _ and any union that violates will be immediately deregistered and those responsible for the hold-up in the industry will be excluded from working in it during the duration of the war.”