GO-SLOW ATTITUDE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27012, 22 February 1949, Page 6

GO-SLOW ATTITUDE

AUCKLAND CARPENTERS INDIFFERENCE EXPRESSED Complete indifference to anything the employers may do to combat the go-slow attitude of Auckland carpenters by laying off staff, is expressed in the Go Slow Express, the official bulletin published by the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Carpenters and Joiners’ Union. The bulletin is circulating throughout the Dominion at present, and has now reached Dunedin. Under the heading of “ Boo,” the Bulletin says that if any builder liked to sack, his workers, there was a queue waiting to snap them up. Builders were short of staff to man jobs already held up through shortage of labour, and if carpenters and joiners were put off there would be other employers who would consider thir own position first and the decisions of their organisation next. They had told the union that.

“The go-slow practice held last year has stood • chippies ’ in good stead,” states the bulletin. “Knowing now the way to do it, they have got away to a flying start, and the results are more startling than last year. One whole job after the first day of the go-slow was down 50 per cent, on pro* duction. The best record comes from a factory where there were men cramping sashes. One used to average 150 a day. After the go-slow he did 15,” stated the bulletin, “and the day of the stop-work meeting he sweated over one!”