UNION ACTION.
ALLEGED THREATS.
CHARGE BY EMPLOYERS. TENDERING FOR CONTRACTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, tliis day. A serious charge against trade unions was made by Mr. S. G. Holland, president of the Canterbury Employers' Association. Referring to developments of recent years, Mr. Holland said: "Another amazing turn in modern unionism is the use of local bodies for the adoption of a policy of victimisation towards firms whose representatives appear as conciliation council assessors and have the temerity to disagree with the demands of the unions' assessors. Employers' assessors have been threatened with other means to enforce compliance with union demands, and those threats have been put into operation at the expense of the public by contracts for identically the same goods being awarded to tenderers at higher prices. The official reason given has been that labour conditions influenced the decision arrived at, but the conditions of employment under which the unsuccessful but lowest tenderers' employees work are at least as favourable, as those of the tenderer to whom the contract is awarded. I say that such a state of affairs is a scandal and a disgrace."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 228, 26 September 1934, Page 9
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186UNION ACTION. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 228, 26 September 1934, Page 9
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