TRADE UNION SECRETARIES
Sir,—ln a report of an armed forces appeal board case a State service, appealing for a (grade 1) workers’ union secretary, on the grounds of public interest stated that “‘X’ had been of great value in settling disputes, and only recently he had settled a case in which the men . . . were ready to strike.” Again, in a Parliamentary report, a member stated that “a trade union secretary got four new tyres simply by putting a telephone call through to Wellington. The Minister replied that the trade union secretary received his tyres on the basis of the part he was playing in the Interests of industry and in maintaining production and industrial harmony.” These disclose recognition of a status of trouble-controller for certain private individuals more like the exercise of power enjoyed by the witch-doctor in a backward heathen tribe than any proper functioning of responsible democratic administration.—Yours, etc., BLACK MAGIC. August 13, 1943.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24028, 17 August 1943, Page 6
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