Swearing At Union Meetings
Sir, —A recent news item reported amendments to rules brought forward by the Can-terbury-Westland Coach and Motor Builders’ Industrial Union of Workers, providing for fines not exceeding £5 for any member who oversteps the mark in regard to abuse, swearing at the chair, etc. The rules should not fail to find the required support from the average, straight-thinking, responsible union leaders, and rank-and-file members. Union secretaries in Christchurch who consider “swearing at the chair” quite in order and hardly worth challenging to the extent of a fine could well be advised to flap their wings around New Zealand. The donkeyman on a coastal ship at Lyttelton does not say much for the leadership and control in general of his union. Apprentices help to make up the membership of almost every job. If these boys are not shown the right road in all directions during their timid years, in respect to proper conduct, especially on the swearing question, then it does not show a very genuinely responsible outlook among some of the adult trade unionists of today.— Yours, etc., MANLY CONDUCT. January 5, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30641, 6 January 1965, Page 8
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