MR WEBB BLAMES DEPRESSION
CO THE EDITOR Sir, —An appeal lias been made by Mr Webb to the employers and employees to get together for the solution of their problems. Mr Webb said ho would like everyone to forget their politics. Well, why does not Mr Webb be fair himself for a start before he can expect others to fall in with his appeal? He states that the shortage of skilled artisans was a legacy from the last Government. As a Labour member for years he must know that his statement is quite contrary to facts, and every working man knows that. Mr Webb must know that for years before the depression all the trade unions had been agitating for fewer and fewer apprentices until they had cut the number down to one apprentice to five iourneymen. and if the trade unions and the Labour Parly could have got their own way In the past there would have been no apprentices taken on to learn any trade, only every five years. Now the Labour Party are blaming everyone but themselves.—l am, etc., A Worker
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23703, 10 January 1939, Page 5
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