Miss Howard Thought Nurses’ Messages Were “Not Nice”
(P.A.) NAPIER, April 6. “I believe in trade unionism and in the Arbitration Court, but as long as I am Minister of Health you will have the type of organisation you want and not what I want,” said the Minister of Health, Miss M. Howard, in opening the annual conference of the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association this morning. Miss Howard said that she had made reference to unionism on the floor of the House of Representatives and soon afterwards received messages from nurses saying that they would not have anything to do with a union. “This was not very nice,” she said, declaring that she would not interfere with the type of organisation to which nurses belonged. She pointed out that whether they called it an association or a union, the nurses had banded tosether and it was through this unity that the profession had been able to make progress about hours, salaries and other working conditions.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22916, 7 April 1949, Page 6
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