UNION ACTION FEARED BY CARPENTERS WHO INTENDED TO RESUME
(P.A.) AUCKLAND. April 5. With the staffs of many firms still considerably below normal strength, disorganisation still reigns in the building industry in Auckland. It is a half weeks since the carpenters were dismissed en masse by the Auckland Master Builders’ Association following adoption by the union of a go-slow policy as a protest against the terms of the new award which came into force In December-
Registration of a new union to replace the deregistered section of the Carpenters’ Union has not yet been sought by the organisers. On some jobs the number of carpenters who resumed work after the deregistration of the union on March 25 has dwindled as a result of alleged intimidation. Of more than 90 employed on the State housing contract at Tamaki only one is back at work.
Several builders reported they had lost men who feared they would be “blacklisted.” In some cases carpenters who were preparing to start work had packed tup their tools and returned to the city after being spoken to by other unionists.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22915, 6 April 1949, Page 8
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183UNION ACTION FEARED BY CARPENTERS WHO INTENDED TO RESUME Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22915, 6 April 1949, Page 8
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