STOP-WORK MEETINGS
gir A Press Association report from’ Auckland published in your columns recently, coneei. , , Auckland Waterside Workers Union’s ‘‘monthly” stop-work meet-, ing provides considerable food for thought, but what the action will not provide is food for British tables. An added statement that a further stopwork meeting may be held to enable Mr J. E. Napier to addiess the union might well have been amusing, had it not been for the gum realities of the situation. It seems that idleness is a sort of drug. When taken in small doses, a craving for more takes possession of the “workers. Present!}, I fear, they will take such a large dose of it that no work will be done at all. That would be all very well if the Dominion were a sort of Utopia or paradise. Unfortunately that is not tlto CSSO The cruel laws of Nature demand that we must eat, and to eat wo must work. If we do not work then the consequences seem to be rather too evident. I am, etc., „ YAWN „
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14569, 13 January 1948, Page 2
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