UNION BOYCOTT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 8

UNION BOYCOTT

SYDNEY MAN LEAVES ANOTHER HOTEL

NO FOOD. DRINK OR SERVICE | Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 16. Tne boycott by members of lhe | Hotel Workers’ Union against M:. I Frank Goldberg, a Sydney businessIman, was carried on in Christchurch. 'Last evening Mr. Goldberg voluntarily left Warner's Hotel, where he I had booked in on Tuesday after having left the United Service Hotel because of the boycott. j The staff of the hotel had refused Ito serve Mr. Goldberg with food or idrink or to perform any service for 'him whatever. When a reporter callled at the office of the Canterbury Hotel Workers’ Union to ask Mr. K. ! Williams, assistant secretary, for {comment on the situation he was tola j by a member of the office staff that iMr. Williams would not see him and i had no statement to make to the i newspapers. Others who declined to make any statement on the situation when approached were Mr. B. Reginiald Collins, managing-director of I Warner’s Hotel; Mr. Ernest, Boulton, :manager of the United Service Hot.!, and Mr. A. Wilson, president of the Canterbury Hotel Workers’ Union, | who is chef at Warner’s Hotel. Replying to the comment of the 'prime Minister, Mr. Goldberg said. I“I did everything that was possible •to avoid publicity but it was impossible to kep the news of the s’HuaItion out of the newspapers. In my stay at the hotels it has been impossible to keep the news of the situa- ] ness associates and 1 had to explain iio them the reason for this. You know ’how difficult it was last night to get |me to make the first statement on ithe subject. You were with me tail 112 o'clock before 1 would say yes to 'you.” , . . , When asked about the pampolet ;published during the election caniipaign last year entitled "Your future lin your hands," which it had been :stated that he had taken a part in preparing, Mr. Goldberg said: I had no association with it whatever. 1 [condemned it then and I condemn n I now.” Mi. Goldberg has arranged to stay .privately in Christchurch until the ’Newspaper Proprietors’ Conference at 'Mamner Springs.

LEAVES FOR WELLINGTON

MR. GOLDBERG DEPARTS FROM CHRISTCHI KUH. I Per Press Association.' CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 17. Mr. Frank Goldberg, of Sydney, left for Wellington by the steamer-express this evening. He embarked on the steamer quietly and the steamer left at 8.40 p.m. scheduled time, without any incident. Mr. Goldberg has left Christchurch after being in the city since Tuesday morning, when he booked in at the United Service Hotel but left later in the day for Warner's Hotel. He left Warner's when the staff said they would refuse to give him service. He had already' left a hotel in the North Island for the same reason. Mr. Goldberg said on Wednesday, that he intended to go to the conference of the Newspaper Proprietors Association at Hanmer at the weekend. His departure this evening was made without any previous announcement to the newspapers. It is reported that Mi. Goldberg, since the publicity given to tfie boycott against h.n», has received many telegrams, letters and telephone calls, congratulating him on the siand he has taken and making offers of accommodation.