SUNDAY WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 5

SUNDAY WORK

AUCKLAND DISPUTE

MR. WEBB INVESTIGATES

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 30. "The question of Sunday work and profit-making is a dead letter in Britain, where all classes and shades of political thought are united as never before in the fight for preservation of the great heritage called democracy," said the Minister of Labour (Mr. Webb), commenting on a rumour that there had been a hold-up of shipping activities on the Auckland wharves on Sunday. He said he had invited members oi the Waterfront Control Commission and the secretary of the Freezing Workers' Union to meet him to discuss the position. "My information from Mr. ft. E. Price, chairman of the commission, is that the work on Sunday was quite satisfactory, and ample provision had been made to meet all shipping requirements," Mr. Webb said. With the close of the old year, which had been full of sadness and sorrow, a new year was dawning with greater responsibilities on everyone, said the Minister. The employer or company who looked on this war as a time to make extra profits should be in a mental hospital, and the worker, whether on a farm, in a workshop, or office, who refused to give of his best was acting treacherously to trade unionism, the Government, and the British , Commonwealth. «"I am confident that if the seriousness of the war situation was appreciated in its full significance, no one would fail to pull his full weight to add to our national effort," said Mr.