More Industrial Strife Threatened

Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 22, 27 January 1942, Page 5

More Industrial Strife Threatened

BOILERMAKERS AND HOLIDAY PAY Per Pres* Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 26. Instructions have been issued to members of the Auckland Boilermakers ’ Union that they are to ignore the Overtime and Holiday Suspension Order, 1941, in respect of work of Anniversary Day, January 29, and that they must not work on that day, except under the terms of their award, which provides that work on holidays must be paid at I treble time, but was abrogated by the recent order. A letter to the members reads: “The annual meeting directed that tho following instructions be issued to members: The cancellation of the holiday (Anniversary Day) by the Emergency Regulation is to be totally ignored. No boilermaker is to work on January 29 on any conditions other than those set out in clause 6 of the award. These instructions are issued in accordance with the resolution adopted by the Federation of Labour (Auckland Council) on January 15. Asked to comment upon the decisions of different unions to work on Anniversary Day only at award rates, the Minister of Labour (Hon. P. C. Webb) said the organistions would be deregistered if they took this stand. “That is definitely our attitude,” he added. “There is no let-up and no compromise. Work must go on.”