WAIKATO STRIKE
VALIDITY OF BALLOT
QUESTIONED BY SECTION OF
WORKERS P.A. AUCKLAND, Mar. 12. The New Zealand Herald’s special correspondent at Mangakino telegraphed to-night that 1 indications are growing that a challenge may soon be made by a section of the workers at Mangakino to the validity of the secret ballot by which the Mangakino branch of the New Zealand Workers’ Union decided on Tuesday to cease work on the hydro-electric power schemes at Maraetai, Whakamaru and Waipapa. Apart from this, there were no new developments to-day in the strike which will enter its third day to-mor-row. The main hint of future developments came to-day from the opposition group in the union which drew criticism from the executive yesterday as canvassing members in a “ strike breaking attempt.” Members of this group said they felt the real question had been clouded by the Communist element in the village and they considered they had well-founded suspicions that the ballot conducted by the executive was far from regular. Being true unionists they did not desire to break the strike as such, but to prevent the union from being used to further the influence of Communism in the Dominion. They were fighting Communism, not unionism.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26719, 13 March 1948, Page 8
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