STATEMENT BY ENGINEERS
« COMMUNISTIC TACTICS ” (P.A.) WELLINGTON March 15. The engineers at Mangakino had never submitted an ultimatum to the Government, as claimed in the official statement of the New Zealand Workers’ Union, said the Professional Engineers’ Association of New Zealand in a statement issued to-day. The association said the engineers appreciated the very important part commonsense handling of union agreements played in bringing about good understanding between two essential groups, management and workmen, but when a small group set out to disrupt these relationships to the point of making it impossible for either side to function, then some action was called for.
The statement said the Government, after full investigation of the Mangakino situation, decided on the transfer of one of the men, and it was this action to which the men were objecting. “The Professional Engineers’ Association considers that if the men fully appreciated just what was the issue at stake against . which the engineers were taking a stand-r Communistic tactics and not practical unionismthen the result of the ballot might have been very different,” the statement concluded.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25444, 16 March 1948, Page 6
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