Mr Skinner’s Reply To P.M.
(N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, Mar. 14. The Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) was “misguided,” the president of the Federation of Labour, Mr T. E. Skinner, told a stopwork meeting attended by about 2000 workers at the market reserve in Dunedin today.
Mr Skinner, addressing the second stop-work meeting of four being held in the main centres, was replying to comments made by Mr Holyoake after yesterday’s F.O.L. meeting in Auckland. Mr Holyoake said that what he had seen of Mr Skinner’s address was “disappointing and confused.” To the attentive Dunedin gathering, Mr Skinner said he had told Mr Holyoake at a recent meeting that “he had a lot of dud advisers.” The F.O.L. had been issuing
warnings about where the country was heading since 1961 and Mr Holyoake would not listen, Mr Skinner said. “That’s why we’re in this mess now and why we’re here today,” he said.
All the time the F.O.L. had been sounding the warnings, the Prime Minister was saying the organisation was “confused.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31319, 15 March 1967, Page 1
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