Container shipping
Sir,—Your leading article starts off: “The British Conference Lines want to make more money from New Zealand cargoes. That is the nub . . .” The nub is that the Conference Lines want some profit out of their services, which they have every right to, but in the face of the scandalous conditions of work and holdups on our waterfronts this is becoming increasingly difficult. The nub is that a vicious little dictatorship within the -inions-has sent wages and costs sky-high with strikes, shockingly poor work, and every obstruction possible, - hey have destroyed our coastal shipping, ruined the Union Company, and now the container service, and in the end-will, like the West Coast coalminer, ruin the.iselves. With the E.E.C. approaching, it is time for New Zealand to come back to reality. It is time for the moaners the farmers, the teachers, the Public Service, and the wharfies to get down to work. And it is time for the Government to cut into the Welfare State which we can no longer afford.—Yours, etc.,
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32612, 21 May 1971, Page 8
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171Container shipping Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32612, 21 May 1971, Page 8
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