MEN DISMISSED.
ALLEGATIONS OF LOCKOUT. AUCKLAND FIRM’S ACTION. AUCKLAND, July 3. The action of a city carrying firm in dismissing a number of employees allegedly because of inability to pay the 1931 standard of wages is claimed by the Auckland Drivers’ Union to be a lockout. The contention is based on section 122 of the I.C. and A. f Act, 1925. In a letter to the Minister of Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) the union alleges that the firm concerned called the drivers together and told them that if they would not enter into an agreement to sign a document to work for less than the ruling rates of pay therir services would be dispensed with. The men, it is added, declined to sign or to agree to any such arrangement, and consequently were discharged.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 4 July 1936, Page 5
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136MEN DISMISSED. Wairarapa Age, 4 July 1936, Page 5
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