SUNDAY WORK

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 December 1940, Page 10

SUNDAY WORK

MR. WEBB’S APPEAL.

[per 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 Mr. Webb, Minister for Labour, when commenting on a rumour that there had been a holdup of shipping activities on the Auckland wharves on Sunday. He said he had invited members of the Waterfront Control Commission and the Secretary of the Freezing Workers’ Union to meet him to discuss the position.. “My information from Mr. R. E. Price, chairman of the commission, is that work on Sunday was quite satisfactory, and ample provision had been made to meet all shipping requirements.” Mr. Webb added that with the close of the old year, which had been full of sadness and sorrow, the new year was dawning with greater responsibilities on everyone. “The employer or company who looks upon this war as a time to make extra profits should be in a mental hospital, and the worker, whether on the farm, in the workshop, ,oi' the office, who refuses to give of his best is acting treacherously to trade unionism, the Government, and the ’ British Commonwealth,” he said. “I- am confident that if the seriousness of the war situation was appreciated ih.’its full significance, no one:would fail to pull his full weight to add to our national effort.”