UNITED FEDERATION OF LABOUR.
DISCHARGED SOLDIERS* PERMITS.
'Mc Scarcity,of doctors.
The"Auckland District Council'of the) t'nitcd Federation of Labour last night • passed, the following resolution: "The District Council of the Unitted Federation of Labour emphatically protests against the recent Order-in-Council al- i lowing inspectors of factories to issiia ' "Discharged soldiers'' permits,' as being! in direct contravention., of section 25 of the Trade and Commerce Act; that the ■tmder-rate -workers'- • clauses as at- present inserted .{n a-wards are ample to cover any special cases, and that it will tend to directly encourage unscrupulous employers in the direction of endeavouring to obtain cheap labour." A further resolution wae passed: "That attention,be drawn-to the inability of workers to obtain medical attention- at night, owing to the scarcity of doctors, "and tVe hljrfi charges prevailing; as in several cases ol late, of a life and death nature, it had been found practically impossible to obtain the "r- nviose of a doctor."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 65, 16 March 1916, Page 2
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