Call for release of Kinleith report

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33790, 12 March 1975, Page 25

Call for release of Kinleith report

'New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 10. The Opposition’s spokesman on labour. Mr J. B. Gordon, today accused the Minister of Labour (Mr Faulkner) of deliberate delays in the public release of findings of the Commission of Inquiry' into alleged union malpractices at Kinleith.

“The report from the:: Commission of Inquiry was filed on March 1, and the Minister has had sufficients time to give a more positive response to the 51-page re-it port, other than to suggest! he is taking legal advice oni: its possible public release,”; Mr Gordon said in a state-! ment. “If the commission’s find-! ings absolve the engineers’! union from allegations of mal.l practice then this can only: be for the immediate benefit of trade unionism throughout the country. ! : “If the report does sub-’

stantiate allegations of malpractice, then it will provide conclusive evidence for the i Opposition’s original request for a full public inquiry into jail union malpractices. "The. Government only .accepted the call for an iniquity from members of the (Engineers’ Union, and it is I the Minister’s immediate duty to publish the full findings of the Commission of I Inquiry. Otherwise the Minister must clarify why he finds it necessary to take legal advice before considering the release of the findings.”