STOP-WORK MEETING PLANNED

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 225, 21 June 1939, Page 6

STOP-WORK MEETING PLANNED

Carpenters And Joiners In Auckland MASTER BUILDERS MAKE PROTEST By Telegraph—Press At-eoeiation. AUCKLAND, June 20. As a result of dissatisfaction that lias been brewing over the terms and observance of awards issued by the Court of Arbitration, a stop-work meeting, called by the Auckland Carpenters and Joiners’ Union, will be held in the Town Hall tomorrow at 8.30 a.m. A large attendance of carpenters and joiners is expected, and the gathering will be augmented by many general labourers, steel workers and other groups associated with the building trade. The decision to hold such a meeting as a protest against the general conditions of the award recently issued by the Court of Arbitration was reached by a meeting of 300 carpenters and joiners on Sunday. At a meeting of 350 members of the Auckland General Labourers’ Union in the Trades Hall tonight, it was decided to associate with carpenters and joiners in their protest. A declaration that they considered the stop-work meeting proposed for today by the Auckland carpenters and joiners to be unconstitutional and illegal was made by a meeting of the. Auckland Master Builders’ Association. It was decided to have all jobs open for work tomorrow morning. This means that, while the men are free to attend the stop-work meeting if they choose, they will lose the time they take off. The following resolution was adopted unanimously: “That the strongest possible protest be made against the action of the Carpenters and Joiners’ Union in calling a stop-work meeting to discuss a matter which is solely between the Court of Arbitration and the unions, it is considered that the stop-work meeting is distinctly unconstitutional and illegal, and it will simply have the effect of disorganizing the building business and will affect the public generally at a time when delays are very undesirable."

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