SLOW WORK AT PORTS
ADMISSION BY MR. FRASER
YOUNG MEN HELD TO BLAME
An admission that it was a fact that waterside workers at several New Zealand ports did adopt go-slow tactics and take unduly long over the loading and unloading of vessels was made, in Haw era by ttie acting-Prime Minister, the lion. Peter Fraser, states the Taranaki Herald.
Mr. Fraser said that, although the seriousness of the position had been exaggerated to some extent, he regretted to have to admit that there was quite a deal of truth in the allegations that had been made, lie personally was aware of the trouble and twice had addressed the workers on the Auckland waterfront in an endeavour to get better conditions. Mr. Fraser said investigations had shown that it: was not the older men on the waterfront who were the cause of the trouble. It was the young workers. They had come to maturity in the days of the depression and had grown up without the discipline of regular employment. What work they did get was only temporary. Now that conditions were better they were failing to adapt themselves and were not giving of their best. Therefore, those
who railed at tho wastage of time and money on the waterfront had a. foundation for their complaints.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19338, 31 May 1937, Page 13
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216SLOW WORK AT PORTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19338, 31 May 1937, Page 13
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