Boilermakers Concerned
The Canterbury Boilermakers’ Union had been alarmed to find that some of the boilermaking firms in Christchurch were only interested in teaching apprentices to be cheap production units, the secretary of the union (Mr A. Cormack) said last evening. Mr Cormack said that boil-er-making was a skilled trade, and not very many boys were coming forward as apprentices. The emphasis in firms should be on training them, but in some cases the apprentices were employed on jobs other than boilermaking. Employers should take a long-term view. Some of the supervisors that boys were working under could not, or would not, train them. “All they are concerned with is getting them to be production units,” Mr Cormack said. "The first duty of the employer is to teach the boy the trade, but he cannot be taught that with the slaphappy attitude of some employers.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31239, 10 December 1966, Page 16
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