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MINISTER’S REPLY TO UNION (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 18. Replying to-day to the statement made in Auckland by Mr H. Barnes, national president of the Waterside Workers’ Union, that the watersiders were not going to work at the largest ports on Saturday afternoons, the Acting Minister of Labour, Mr J. O’Brien, said that no one would dispute that many workers had been called upon to work long hours, and that the strain was being increasingly felt by these workers. The point, however, was that the necessity for continuous working on ships in order to turn them round as quickly as possible was just as urgent, if not more so, than at any period of the .war. Unreasonable overtime was not insisted upon, and, in fact, it would be a bad policy.
He was quite prepared, the Minister added, to discuss the matter with the union to see how far they could go in freeing men oft Saturday afternoons without involving a complete cessation of work.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25848, 19 May 1945, Page 6
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