WOOLPACK INDUSTRY
MR BEGG'S REFERENCES REPLY BY WORKERS’ UNION (P a ) FOXTON, June 12. At‘a meeting of the executive of the New Zealand Flax and Textile Workers’ Union exception was taken to the statement made by Mr James Begg regarding woolpacks. A, reply by the president Mr H. Podmore, who is also a member of the Flax Rehabilitation Committee, was endorsed taking Mr Begg to task for saying it would be better if the factory were burned down. , It* was stated that the making of woolpacks was providing permanent employment for 100 men who had previously been receiving only three days’ work a week. State assistance had also been given to the farmers, and tariff protection to the wheatgrowers, resultihg in dearer bread to the workers. The reference to the Minister being a “fairy godmother” could also be applied a few years back when the Minister looked after the wheatgrowers very well, while the flax workers received a 33 1-3 per cent, reduction.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24632, 13 June 1941, Page 4
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