DOMINION INDUSTRIES
MANUFACTURERS ANXIOUS PROTECTION FROM LABOUR LEGISLATION ( Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Oct. 18. "The Federation notes that the Prime Minister is not yet in a position to make the statement promised of the procedure to be followed in safeguarding New Zealand industries,” says a statement by the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation to-day. The statement reviewed the Federation’s approaches to the Prime Minister, and the Minister of Industries and Commerce and Customs since 1935 for protection and said the manufacturers were apprehensive over the knowledge that orders were going overseas which previously had been handled by New Zealand factories. The Federation asked for protection from the situation which must follow the Government’s labour legislation.
"The unemployment predicted by the Federation has come to pass, but the safeguarding measures promised by the Government have not. The most unfortunate aspect of the situation is that industry cannot indefinitely continue to carry workers who have been retained in expectation of the Prime Minister’s fulfilment of his undertakings.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 249, 20 October 1937, Page 9
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