Coercive Methods Not For Workers
iP.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Only a genuine effort to recover their cooperation would mobilise workers in the desired way; coercive methods would get nowhere, said the president of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union (Mr H. Barnes) yesterday.
"When it was proposed that a National Emergency Council be set up with powers to override- industrial awards and agreements, with particular reference to the watc-rfront,' said Mr Barnes, "I stated that such a policy would antagonise, rather than mobilise, workers." ••A wrong interpretation has got abroad of the National Industrial Emergency Council we recommended to Ihc Government yesterday," said Mr F. P. Walsh, at the meeting of the national Aid for Britain Conference, •The power of the council we recommended are to be similar to those of the Industrial Emergency Council which was set up and functioned through the war years. "That council had equal representation from the trade union movement and the employers, with the Minister of Labour as chairman," said Mr Walsh. "Its complete powers were in the form of a recommendation to the Minister. “I feel confident, as one who sat on that body, that this council which we are recommending will do equally good work if the same spirit permeates it."
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Northern Advocate, 23 August 1947, Page 3
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