The Press SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1963, Deplorable Strike
The time may come when the Tasman Empire Airways pilots will be ashamed of their unjustifiable threat to strike on Monday. They have cause to be. The pilots have ample legal remedies for any injustices they feel they may suffer, and the
Government and the company have agreed to facilitate a proper review of the terms of their employment The pilots reject this course, apparently because they will accept negotiations
only if it is agreed beforehand that they win. Their conduct is particularly deplorable, because they are not wage-earners close to the subsistence level but a
highly privileged section of the community, earning in some cases more than £2soo a year for congenial work. With privilege goes responsibility, though the pilots show little appreciation of that. There may be some grounds for their impatience (though T.E.AX,. does not yet operate much more than a local service), but they have forfeited public good will by the irresponsible way in which they have urged their demands. The Government and the company should not submit to such indiscipline from a body of men who, above all others in civilian occupations, should know the value of discipline.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30278, 2 November 1963, Page 10
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