AUTHORITY BLAMED
Breaking Of Pledges
PA WELLINGTON, Sept. 19. Mr A. B. Grant, secretary of the New Zealand Trade Union Congress, said tonight that when Mr Holland referred io the assurances stated to have been given by the watersiders that the status quo would be maintained he should have remembered that the responsibility for breaking the status quo on the waterfront rested not with the Waterside Workers' Union, but with the Waterfront Authority, which had disturbed the equilibrium in the interest of the employers.
Mr Grant said the Prime Minister was invoking regulations introduced by. “ another Tory Government ” in 1932 and aimed against the Uamwaymen of Christchurch and unemployed workers. In fact, Mr Holland was reverting to the depression enactments to maintain discipline against the working class in 1950, a year of plenty.
Mr Grant said his national executive would meet tomorrow to consider the developments.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27499, 20 September 1950, Page 6
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