INDUSTRIAL TROUBLE
"MINIMUM INCONVENIENCE"
(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Commenting on an Opposition speaker's prediction that sooner or later New Zealand would have a recurrence of the industrial disturbances of 1913, Mr. Coleman (Govt., Gisborne) said in the House of Representatives last night that had the Opposition been in office at the present time the country would have been in a tumult of strife similar to that which had been mentioned.
The present Government, continued Mr. Coleman, had handled disputes and stoppages in a statesmanlike manner that had caused a minimum of inconvenience. Some members had said that the big stick or the iron fist should have been used, but he felt sure that such tactics would have aggravated the position, and instead of a few men in particular industries stopping work there might have been a general hold-up. The Government had prevented a spread of disputes and had been successful in most instances in confining them to the men among whom they had arisen.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1944, Page 4
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