Phoned Threat To Manager

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31135, 11 August 1966, Page 8

Phoned Threat To Manager

The managing director of Masonry Services, Ltd., (Mr H. P. Oberg)’ said on Tuesday that he had recently received an anonymous threatening telephone call.

His firm is involved in an industrial dispute with the Canterbury Trades Council of the Federation of Labour which claims that the firm is blocklaying by labour-only contract. Mr Oberg said the call was a warning by someone who said: “I am pleased to hear you have put yourself in the cactus.” It had been made to his home telephone number one evening. Mr Oberg said that he had replied: ‘‘Your message has been tape-recorded.” The caller then hung up. Mr Oberg said that he had had more than 50 telephone calls of congratulation, including one from a clergyman, for the stand his firm was making in its efforts to resist the pressures from the unions. In the weekly newsletter of Durham street Methodist Church, the minister (the IT ts not a question of your ability to stand the cost of advertisement—but being able to survive without it. The thing one has to consider is not only an extension of your business, but of holding what you already have. Advertising not only does not increase the cost of the advertised article, but. on the contrary, makes economies possible that benefit consumers

Rev. W. S. Dawson) this week said: “I don’t know much about labour only contracts, but I can’t help thinking every workman needs the protection of his union. Building can be a dangerous and spasmodic industry, and human nature being what it is, a strong union can be a factor for the workers’ safety and well-being. . . ”