SUNDAY WORK ON RADIO STATION

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22198, 15 September 1937, Page 8

SUNDAY WORK ON RADIO STATION

COMPLAINTS DISCUSSED AT NORTH BEACH "CONCRETE-MIXERS GOING AND MEN HAMMERING" Complaints about workmen being engaged for the last two Sundays on the construction of the new commercial radio station, 3ZB, at New Brighton were made by seven! members at a meeting of the North Beach Progress League last night Mr G. Franklin said that he had received many complaints about gangs of men engaged in the last two Sundays in and about the 3ZB transmitter. The Government wouM not allow shops to keep open, be said. Mr E. A. M. Leaver said that after the fight the league had put up to secure the station for New Brighton it would appear best for it to express pleasure at the progress being made and the hope that the station would be opened on September 21 as proposed. Another member, opposing Leaver's suggestion, said he felt that New Brighton was slipping i 8 the observance of Sunday. Sunday work was opposed to the principle of the Government and to the riding of the Arbitration Court. Sew* shops could not keep open even if overtime were paid. Yet here »"«« concrete-mixers working and meß hammering at the mast. One of the workmen had said that Mr C. GScrimgeour was to blame. Mr O'Connell said he thought it was disgraceful that men should tie employed on Sunday when the« | was no extreme urgencv. "But the damage has been done,"" he said. "!■ this discussion had arisen at a* earlier date we could have objected with reason."