STRIKE ASSISTANCE
Sir,—l find certain aspects of the waterfront dispute difficult to comprehend. First, when a former waterside worker seeks other employment, does the prospective employer" investigate his previous occupation? Second, is there any unity among members of tradesmen's organisations to resist demands for cash and extended credit? Apparently not. I consider that tradesmen in capitulating to such demands (contrary to the regulations*, and employers whose scruples permit the solving of their labour problems by employing striking waterstders, are assisting to prolong the inconvenience to which the public have been subjected. The actions of these sections of the business community do not correspond with their professed abhorrence of the dispute, and must prove extremely meagre encouragement to the Government in its difficult task.—Yours, etc., SHORT OF SUGAR. April 9, 1951.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26396, 14 April 1951, Page 3
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