THE COMING YEAR

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21850, 31 December 1940, Page 6

THE COMING YEAR

Greater Responsibilities On Everyone By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, December 30. “The question of Sunday work and profit-making is a dead letter in Britain, where all classes and shades of political thought are united as never before in the fight for the preservation of the great heritage called democracy,” said the Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Labour, when commenting on a rumour that there had been a hold-up of shipping activities on the Auckland wharves on Sunday. He said he had invited members of the Waterfront Control Commission and the secretary of the Freezing Workers’ Union to meet him to discuss the position. “My information from Mr R. E. Price, chairman of the Commission, is that the work on Sunday was satisfactory and ample provision had been made to meet all shipping requirements.”

Mr Webb said that with the close of the old year, which had been full of sadness and sorrow, the New Year was dawning with greater responsibilities on everyone. The employer or company who looks upon this war as a time to make extra profits should be in a mental hospital, and the worker, whether on farm, in workshop or office who refused to give of his best is acting treacherously to trade unionism, the Government and the British Commonwealth. “I am confident that if the seriousness of the war situation was appreciated in its full significance, no one would fall to pull his full weight to add to our national effort.”