CARPENTERS' UNION

Hutt News, Volume 15, Issue 40, 25 March 1942, Page 5

CARPENTERS' UNION

. $ The following resolution was car- ( ed unanimously at the half-yearl> i leeting of the Hutt. Valley Branch a i' the Amalgamated Society of Car- ; enters and Joiners and Joiners' 1 Machinists, as an answer to the re- \ Mit announcement in the Cress:-— 1 "That this Union welcomes the i Jtion of the Government in ap- c minting a commissioner of National ; el'ence construction. We believe j Kit unified control over all essen-- i al defence construction is in (he i iterests of the; people of New Zea- j nd in furtherance of the war ; I'fort. "As a union that is vitally con- t >rned in defence construction we 1 ledge ourselves to support to the illest any undertaking that is es- T mtial to the national s'alety. We c •gret i however, that the Govern- i ent. and the Commissioner have t ien fit to suspend our award con- 1 itions. According to the state- :i lent in the Press by the Minister f Labour, Mr. Webb, all overtime ites have been suspended and a flat. ite of per hour introduced. . his means in effect that a carpen'r working in the interests of naonal safety will lose 17/- in the c , 1 hour week. This meeting of nionists will work any hours deem . 1 necessary by the Government. , ' / if. request that the principle of the • •■hour week, of which the late ' rime Minister, Mr. Savage, was so dent a champion, he aflirmed. We 'lieve that unless this is done, proict ion will ineviitablv suffer and 1 Q dus!nal unity be endangered. The embers of this Union have been ell lo the fore in the (ask of buildg Ihe nation's defences. v '' We ask !ha( equa/ily of sacrifice Y ; applied to all sections of the a immunity, thai, all profits should a > subject to a maximum of 4 per a nt, and all idustry that could be c service to the nation in this criti- f< 1 hour be so placed." u