ONE-DAY STRIKE FAVOURED

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26122, 26 May 1950, Page 8

ONE-DAY STRIKE FAVOURED

ADDINGTON RAILWAYMEN A one-day strike on the day Parliament opens is favoured by the Addington branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants as a protest against the lifting of food subsidies by the Government. A resolution adopted at a meeting at the Addington workshops was:—“That this meeting of the Addington branch of the A.S.R.S. supports the Otago railway workers in theii; request to the provisional committee of the Trade Union Congress and the Federation of Labour to organise a one-day strike on t/ie opening day of Parliament; further, we request that the national executive of the A.S.R.S. does all in its power to make any such stoppage a success.”

CALL FOR RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT

A call on the Government to resign was made by 300 members of the Islington branch of the Freezing Workers’ Union at a special mass meeting yesterday. Motions unanimously adopted by the branch were: “That this branch meeting protests against the action of the National Government in removing subsidies and price controls on all foodstuffs, and, by doing so, reducing the present wage structure, which the workers of this country enjoyed under a Labour Government, and that this meeting brings under the notice of the National Government its pledges during the 1949 election campaign, when its slogan was ‘Make the pound buy more,’ and call on Mr Holland and his party to resign and go to the country again. “We ask the Prime Minister and Minister of Broadcasting to allow Mr Walter Nash, M.P.. the right to reply over the air to statements about the state in which he left the country’s finance.”