X-RAY TESTS OF WORKERS
COMPULSORY BASIS ADVOCATED LABOUR FEDERATION’S DECISION (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 6. Compulsory X-ray examinations for workers will be advocated by the New Zealand Federation of Labour. A remit to this effect from the Canterbury Boilermakers’ Union was adopted on a card vote by a majority of about two to one at the federation’s annual conference in Wellington. The federation’s general committee had recommended that the remit should not be adopted, because the committee felt it could not agree with compulsion. There was a long discussion on a motion proposed by Mr J. B. Main, national president of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, and seconded by Mr T. C. Gallagher, of the Patea Freezing Workers’ Union, that the remit should be adopted in spite of the committee’s recommendation. Many delegates spoke in favour of the amendment, urging that new steps were necessary to wipe out tuberculosis. The opponents of the amendment said they did not think compulsion was a good principle. Messrs Main and Gallagher said persuasive methods used to date had not resulted in sufficient people being examined, and compulsion was the only answer.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27961, 7 May 1956, Page 9
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