WOOL STORE WORK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 276, 21 November 1936, Page 10

WOOL STORE WORK

LAST WEEK’S STOPPAGE ACTION OF THE I NION. PROCEEDINGS MAY FOLLOW. (Per Press Association] WELLINGTON, Nov. 20. Proceedings, it is understood, are contemplated against the Wellington Storemen, Packers and Warehouse Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers (wool, grain and hide section), in connection with the stoppage of work in wool stores last Saturday. Acting in accordance with instructions from the Minister of Labour, the department has advised the secretary of the union, Mn J. Tucker, that it intends instituting proceedings against Mr. Tucker and the union for an alleged breach of section 109 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. 1925. EMPLOYERS’ PROTEST UNIONISTS’ ASSURANCE GIVEN I Per PresA Association] CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 20. Accusing employees of deliberately flouting the law ' by striking while their dispute was still under consideration. Mr D. I. MacDonald, employers' agent, made strong comment to-day when the Dominion wool, grain, and hides stores dispute was being considered in the Conciliation Council. Last Saturday, claiming that they were entitled to a forty-hour week without. Saturday work, all of the North Island workers in the industry, with the exception of Napier, refused to work. This morning Mr MacDonald asked for. and received, an assurance that there would be no further trouble. Mr \V. Miller, secretary nf the Workers’ Federation, declared that the strike had been caused by the ! employers by their lack of considerai tion for the workers. : Mr MacDonald declared that the 1 law had been flouted by the workers, and blamed the assessors at. the CounIcil table for organising the strike. He ' said that the employers were not pre- | pared to carry on with the proceedings unless an assurance was given I that, there would be no further I trouble. j Mr Miller declared that while the assessors might give personal assurances they could not account for the ; men. While he was not threatening, (the employers by their tactics might ' have trouble all the season. I After further discussion the em- • ployees’ assessors gave assurances i that, as far as they were concerned, I there would be no further trouble. j The proceedings then continued i amicably.