VICTIMISATION.
Sir,—ln Wednesday's Herald is aQ account of the dismissal of 110 men from Government employment in New South Wales, whose only crime was that they worked as volunteers in the R 0 (h. bury Colliery, at the time cf the dispute. At any settlement of strikes c , r trade disputes one of the first conditions usually is that there shall be victimisation. That is to say that the agitators who were responsible for the strike shall not be singled out for pun. ishment, but shall be given work like the rest, and bygones shall be bygones But the Minister of Public Works in New South Wales, Mr. M. A. Davidson actually boasts that lie has hunted these men till he found where they were employed, and has dismissed every one of them He has branded them as men un. fit to be tolerated by his Government and left them to get work, if they can' under this stigma, or starve. I have looked in vain in Friday's issue for anv protest from the trade unions against this brutally vindictive treatment, but what a howl there would have been if an employer had dismissed even one of the agitators. J. Tijornes, 231, Parnell Road.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20762, 3 January 1931, Page 12
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