"WILL GET FIGHT"
MINISTER'S PROMISE
APPEAL TO MEN TO PLAY
GAME
"If Mr. Grant insists on throwing his weight about and obstructing a public service at a time like this, I can assure him he will get.all the fight he is looking for; his threats have no effect on me."
This comment was made by Mr. Semple today regarding Mr. Grant's statement that the railways stop-work meeting in Christchurch called for tomorrow was still on.
Referring to Mr. Grant's announcement that "the society, has made its decision, and irrespective of what the Minister of Railways or anybody else says, it cannot be upset; until the society, countermands that instruction, it stands," the Minister had this to say:—; "Mr. Grant and a small group associated with him is defying his own organisation and sabotaging the tribunal set up by Parliament to deal constitutionally, reasonably, and justly with any dispute that may exist and clean up for all time any anomalies that may exist.
"He is not only defying his own organisation and attempting to smash that Tribunal, but has declared war on the general public and is defying the Minister, and, through the Minister, the Government. c "TYPE OF TREACHERY." "I make an honest appeal to the men's common sense, to give the Tribunal a chance to'be loyal. to their 'organisation and not punish the general public, who are the innocent victims of this type of treachery on the part of Mr. Grant, and a handful of others. I appeal to the loyal railway servants to be true to their organisation and faithful to, the nation, particularly in a time of war when New Zealanders are dying hourly in the interests of the freedom and liberty of this country without seeking additional privileges. I have all the faith in the world, in the Tribunal as far as doing a fair thing for these men is concerned.
"I don't start with a pistol and stop with a threat and will take whatever action, I deem advisable to stop Mr. Grant's threatened action. I appeal to the honest-to-God man in the service/to play the game and ignore th*is type of individual and .not be -stam-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 76, 27 September 1944, Page 6
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