Carpenters' Cose Stated At Meeting

Northern Advocate, 28 February 1949, Page 4

Carpenters' Cose Stated At Meeting

AUCKLAND, Mon. (Sp.)—About 700 attended a meeting in Myers’ Park yesterday al'ternon to hear the case for the carpenters’ go-slow action. The two speakers were the national secretary of the Carpenter’s Union (Mr R. Stanley) and the assistant-secretary of the union’s Auckland branch and editor of the Union Record (Mr D. Martin).

At the end of the meeting a resolution was carried stating that those present considered that the carpenters had a just case and condemned the Auckland master builders and other employers’ associations for their “lock-out action.” A collection taken at the meeting for the “lock-out fund” realised just under £2O. MEETING POSTPONED The stop-work meeting of building trades employees, to have been held at Carlaw Park on Wednesday to discuss the carpenters’ dispute, has been postponed indefinitely. Representatives of seven unions, including a number outside the industry, which have expressed sympathy with the carpenters, met today to review the progress of the dispute. They decided that since other sections of the building industry were not yet faced with wholesale dismissal, the proposed mass meeting be postponed.

They also agreed that builders whose supplies had been stopped because they refuse to dismiss carpenters, be invited to contact the appropriate union, so that action can be taken.

Payments from the union’s “lock-out fund” to unemployed members will be made on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.