Militant unionists ‘new; parasite’
PA New Plymouth The trade unionists ‘running New Zealand’s ,<most powerful and militant unions were a “new breed of parasite,” said the member of Parliament for Invercargill, Mr N. P. H. Jones, yesterday. He called on the Govern- ■ ment to legislate to reduce ; the number of unions and he ' predicted that failure To do so could result in the imposition of a permanent price freeze. Mr Jones was addressing the Young Nationals North Island summer school at Dawson Falls on Mount Egmojit. “Trade union bosses today do not give a damn for the' individual workers in their respective unions. All they want is to manipulate their unions’ power in inter-union politicking,” Mr Jones said. He had forecast last year I that unions would use disrup- !
tive tactics to close Marsden Point. “They have and they will, unless a National Government gets a bit of steel into its backbone and prosecutes every union boss and every unionist who breaks the laws of our country,” he, said.
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Press, 31 January 1983, Page 6
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