“GET OUT AND ORGANISE”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21598, 19 March 1932, Page 12

“GET OUT AND ORGANISE”

APPEAL TO WORKERS REBUILDING ARBITRATION COURT. (From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, March 18. “ There is only one thing left to do now—that is to get out and organise. It is a terribly difficult task. I hope we will not shirk it,” declared Mr Walter Nash (Hutt) in the House of Representatives when issuing an appeal to the workers of New Zealand to begin the immediate rebuilding of the structure of the Arbitration Court, which, he said, had been completely wrecked by the Bill which was nearing the end of its passage through the House. “Now that they have destroyed the work carefully built up over the past 38 years,” he said, “I make this last appeal to the Government to remove the penalties attached to the strike and the lockout. Let everything go, let us get back to stern and stark individualism. Let men and women stand on their own feet. Let them light the employers, let them get together and see what they can do. We will tell the story throughout the Dominion and get justice for the workers.; It may mean hardship for us and for them, but we will win through.” As the years passed, Mr Nash added, the work that Parliament had done that night would bear fruit, but he reminded the Prime Minister that man was greater than Constitution.