Government Cancels Registration of the Carpenters’ Union

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 6

Government Cancels Registration of the Carpenters’ Union

PA ' WELLINGTON, Mar. 25. The Minister of Labour, Mr McLagan, announced to-night that a notice had been gazetted cancelling the registration of the New Zealand (except Otago and Southland) Carpenters, Joiners, and Joiners’ Machinists’ Industrial Union of Workers in respect of an area lying within a radius of 56 miles from the* Chief Post Office, Auckland. The Minister pointed out that in registering under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and applying to have its dispute with the employers heard before the Conciliation Council and the Court of Arbitration, the Carpenters’. Union and its members had accepted the jurisdiction of the court, thereby undertaking to abide by the court’s decisions. The carpenters in Auckland had, at the instigation of certain officials, failed to honour this undertaking, and they still persisted in their attitude. The Minister stated that in these circumstances the Government had no option but to cancel the registration of the union in the area concerned.

The effect of this action, the Minister concluded, is that there is now no award covering the carpenters, joiners, and joiners’ machinists in the Auckland district, and there is no industrial union to which those workers may belong.