WILLING SACRIFICE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20639, 20 August 1941, Page 5

WILLING SACRIFICE

BRITISH WORKERS’ RIGHTS HELP IN PEOPLE’S WAR (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 10 a.m. ’ RUGBY, Aug. 19. At the annual conference of the Transport ' and General Workers’ Union at Llandudno, the chairman, Mr. H. J. Edwards, ’emphasised his conviction that this is a people’s war and, even if greater sacrifices are demanded in days to come, he had great confidence that the people will respond. “It is true that we are called upon temporarily to sacrifice some of our hard-won rights and privileges,” he added. “Guarantees, however, have been secured for the full restoration of trade union privileges at the conclusion of hostilities, though I would say there are many things we have got rid of which we would not wish to see returned. I have in mind particularly the idea of work for a full week’s wages, a principle for which our movement has fought long and strenuously. “To me, as a docker, it has been a source of great satisfaction to live to see the introduction of principles designed to abolish casual employment in dockland. I feel that in this industry we have, in fact, laid down the principles which go beyond the war period and create a basis upon which to build security and continuity of employment in the days that lie ahead.”