GROCERS’ UNION

Southland Times, Issue 19821, 18 March 1926, Page 7

GROCERS’ UNION

NEVER HAD A STRIKE. GOOD WISHES FOR EMPLOYERS. (Special to Tinies.) Dunedin, Mar. 12. “I think we ought to congratulate ourselves on the friendly relations existing between employers and employees in the trade,” remarked the President (Mr J. Henderson), after a letter from the secretary of the Wellington Grocery Employees’Union sending good wishes to the conference, had been read by Mr J. Stott, the Wellington delegate, at last evening’s meeting of the third annual conference of the New Zealand Master Grocers’ Federation. “The Union has never had a strike,” added the president, amidst applause, “and I believe it is part of the constitution of the union that whatever other unions go on strike the grocery employees will stand loyal.” He added that the federation was well satisfied with its practice of admitting to the different conferences the president and secretary of the union.— (Applause). The letter, written on behalf of the Wellington Union by Mr John S. Butcher, read, “I am instructed by my union to ask you to be good enough to convey to the conference of master grocers to be held this month, an assurance from the union of the continued loyalty and good will of the employees, in the trade towards their employers, recognising as it does that the interests of the employers and employees in the trade are inseparable. My union trusts that the conference will be successful, and that the deliberations of the master grocers thereat will prove of benefit to the trade as a whole and themselves individually.”