CALL TO GOVERNMENT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20262, 1 June 1940, Page 3

CALL TO GOVERNMENT

CHECK PRESS CAMPAIGN HUTT WORICSHOU MEN (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. At a mass meeting of the Hutt railway workshops men yesterday a resolution was passed calling on the Government to take strong measures against “the campaign being waged by the press and what the Prime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser, called the ‘political oddments’. We consider the Chambers of Commerce and Farmers’ Union are seriously disrupting the Government’s war effort and using this as an excuse to attack the working conditions which have been built up over a long period of years.”

The men also passed the following resolution: “That in view of the present policy of retrenchment in the workshops, the meeting protests against the Government's action in postponing the statutory holiday on Monday.” The resolution, stated that the meeting viewed with concern the methods adopted and considered that the men should have been given the opportunity, through their organisations, to discuss the question before any decree was made. The better way it was considered would have been to request the men to work on Monday on behalf of the retrenched members, thereby allowing the men under notioe to be retained during this period of the crisis.