TOBACCO WORKERS
FINDING OF DISPUTES COMMITTEE. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, November 21. The Minister for Labour (the Hon. P. C. Webb) has released the finding of the Emergency Disputes Committee which met recently to consider the dispute which caused a strike in the tobacco works of W. D. and H. O. Wills, Petone. The workers alleged that one of their number had been dismissed because of bis union activities. “After the decision of a meeting of the workers concerned to resume work, I sot up a disputes committee under the Emergency Regulations consisting of three representatives from each side, under the chairmanship of Mr J. A. Gilmour, Industrial Magistrate,” said the Minister. “I am informed that after discussing at some length the matter in dispute, members of the committee left it to the chairman to make a decision. Having regard to all the relevant circumstances of the case, and upon due consideration of the testimony of witnesses called at the hearing, Mr Gilmour came to the conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to justify a finding that the worker was dismissed by the company because of his activities as an executive member of the union.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 36, 22 November 1940, Page 8
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