Plea for end to ‘petty bickering’

Press, 10 November 1980, Page 25

Plea for end to ‘petty bickering’

A strong call for productivity was made yesterday by the national president of the Grocery Manufacturers’ Association, Mr J. Calvin. “The catchword of the 1980 s should be productivity at all costs, not petty bickering over relativity at any cost,” he said at the association’s annual cqnferer.ce at Wairakei.

“The burden of the unnecessary cost to our economy caused by 'continual industrial disruption is beyond comprehension. In terms of money lost it would make our national debt look like petty cash. "Think of the enormous amount of lost time in production nation-wide, and the accumulated effects on the cost of things pushing upj the price of every purchase!

I made by every man, woman, land child in New Zealand, ■be it for goods or a service,” Mr Calvin said. | One day the work-force would realise the. enormous cost and would look closer at doing something about “the far Left-orientated union leaders, whose sole object of being in the unions and the F O-L. was to create chaos and fear among the work-force, alienating both employers and employed,’’ Mr Calvin said. "Recently the Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) said that Parliament was a hot-house. I wonder when we can expect these exotic hot-house blooms to begin producing some results for the benefit of New Zealand, or have they gone to seed?" Mr Calvin said.