“NO MORE CRETES"
APPEAL BY CONFERENCE OF UNIONS (Recd. 10.55 p.m.) London, May 18. "Our executive is prepared to continue to urge workers to produce the maximum, but we will not stand for any more Cretes, Hongkongs or Singapores,” said the Hon. Harrison, presiding at the annual conference of the Confederation of Shipbuilding arid Engineering Unions. » “We cannot go on appealing our members to toil and sweat and produce the maximum and continue to see it wasted. I demand the same treatment for those high spheres as is applied to the ordinary workman who is imprisoned for being absent from work or beinr guilty of anything holding up war production. The people responsible for the collapse c-f Hongkong and Singapore by neglecting to see that our men were fully equipped should receive the same punishment as the workman.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 115, 19 May 1942, Page 5
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