NO COMPETITION.
PUBLIC WORKS AND FARMERS. THE EMPLOYMENT OF LABOUR. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. It is the intention of the Government to avoid any competition between the Public Works Department and farmers in the engaging of labour. This was made clear yesterday by the Minister for Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple), when he said that steps would be taken by the Government to prevent men leaving country work to join .public works. “W'e are not going to allow men to go away from farm jobs to take jobs that belong to men who are now out of work,” he said. “We want to draw all our men from among the physically fit of the unemployed, and if other men try to tako their jobs we are going to put the stopper on it.
“I am going to strike a note of warning to those wiio might be just waiting to take the jobs of those men who have been without work for long enough. If they try that on they will get a rude "shock. All I want to say is that anything like that will be stopped. If it shows up we will tread on it good and hard.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 236, 18 July 1936, Page 3
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203NO COMPETITION. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 236, 18 July 1936, Page 3
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