YOUTH EXPLOITATION
UNION ALLEGATION.
AUCKLAND, Thursday.
Members of the Auckland Builders’, General and Other Labourers’ Union passed the following resolution: “This union desires to draw the attention of the Prime Minister to certain portions of recent legislation which make impossible of fulfilment many of Labour’s promises and requests that consideration be given with a view to removing anomalies. In union circles it has been generally understood that 1931 industrial standards would not be reestablished, resulting in the adoption of a good deal of youth exploitation and consequent displacement of adult workers. As far as this union is concerned the recent Finance Act appears to legalise the retention of this bad policy, for it saysi that if any alteration in the classification of workers has taken, place since 1931, it shall not bo interfered with. Hence, while 1931 settlements prevent the exploitation of youth it crept in afterwards and is thus to be maintained thereby in a' measure nullifying 1931 standards.’-’ — (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 4 September 1936, Page 6
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