LIVELIHOOD AFFECTED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26589, 11 October 1947, Page 8

LIVELIHOOD AFFECTED

EFFICIENT SERVICE GIVEN P.A. AUCKLAND. Oct. 10. Resolutions protesting against the proposed changes were unanmiously carried at a meeting of nearly 200 members of the Auckland district branch of the New Zealand General Insurance Industrial Union of Workers. The meeting was well attended, for the total provincial membership of the branch is about 500. The meeting resolved that members of the Auckland district of the union were: (1) Opposed to the Workers Compensation Amendment Act, 1947, in that it provided for a State monopoly of this class of business; (2) considered that members of the union were doing an efficient job and that the. workers of New Zealand would get no better service under a State monpoly; (3) considered that any extended benefits under the Amendment Act, 1947, could be far better incorporated in the present Act and the vast administration' experience of the insurance companies be thus utilised: (4) emphatically protested against the union not’ being consulted by the Government before it brought down the amendment, which might well affect the future livelihood of the union members; (5) decided that a copy of the resolutions should be forwarded to the general secretary of the union, Wellington, for transmission to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Labour, Mr McLagan.