REPLY TO CHALLENGE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 852, 28 August 1933, Page 3

REPLY TO CHALLENGE.

Mr S. G. Holland Stands by His Statement. Mr S. G. Holland, president of the Canterbury Employers’ Association, in a reply to-day to a challenge issued to him by the Canterbury Workers' District Council, states that he adheres to his original statement. “ The challenge issued by the Canterbury Workers’ District Council in Saturday’s “ Star ” is about the most pointless challenge I have ever heard of.” said Mr Holland. “ T made a statement that not a single case of employers exploiting their employees had come under my notice, and I now repeat that statement. The Canterbury Workers’ District Council contradicts that statement, or in other words, they say that cases of exploitation have come under my notice. I deny this emphatically, and I challenge them to prove their statement. “ I have never received an invitatiop to a conference with the Workers' Council, and if they think that it is part of my job, as president of the Canterbury Employers’ Association, to run round to the Trades Hall and interview all the Trades Union secretaries housed there, then they are very much mistaken. ‘‘The issue is very clear: (1) I say that no cases of exploitation have come under my notice. (2) The Workers’ Council deny this statement. (3) I challenge them to prove that cases of exploitation have tome under my notice.” ’ '