IMPORTATION OF CARPENTERS
STOP-WORK MEETING AT LOWER HUTT PRELUDE TO LOWER WAGES SUGGESTED (United‘Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 30. Dissatisfaction among the workers on the State houses in Wellington which had its beginning at Miramar and spread to the Lower Hutt construction centre came to a head yesterday at a stop-work meeting at Lower Hutt. It is understood that protests were voiced against the importation from Britain of carpenters under a guarantee of three years’ work and it was decided to send a deputation both to the Government and to the contractors. A motion was carried to the effect that the meeting viewed with disfavour the policy of importing labour which it regarded as a move to reduce wages and that the ’ Government be approached to make more provision for local labour in preference to importing men. The meeting, which is believed to have been attended by nearly 200 men under the chairmanship of Mr J. T. C. Smith, president of the Wellington branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of New Zealand, also carried a motion protesting against the adult apprenticeship scheme.
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Southland Times, Issue 23345, 1 November 1937, Page 6
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184IMPORTATION OF CARPENTERS Southland Times, Issue 23345, 1 November 1937, Page 6
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