MR SEMPLE BEBUKED

Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19946, 24 July 1936, Page 6

MR SEMPLE BEBUKED

MOTUEKA CAbE RECALLED. "WORKERS' MOHTI" INFRINGID. i I i _ i " iii Gil HANDED METHODS." i l (19y Telegraph—Press Association.) I Al'uuhn'D, Friday. % In a strongly worded resolu- [ tion the Auckland Bultden' Genera] and Othcr Labourer-3' Union condemns the attitude adopted by the Hon. R. sample, the Minister of Public Works. dealing with the reoent Motueko dispute and cello upon the Prime Minister, the ' Right Non. M. J. Bulge, to que I a statement dissociating the Lab- | our Government from the attackI made on “ the workers' elementary 1 rights.” i The union considers .\tr Semple's al—itilude and actions contrary to the :pi'inclpies of Labour on the t‘oiioning 'groundsz—(t‘ That the high-handed method of attacking slop-work meet—ings is a serious blow to the right of the working class to organise freely liar nrotertion and the betterment at -conditions; (2) that the resolution: of liiu- .\ioluelm men In condemning the inrtinns of their general sorre‘iary. ,\lr itinni‘. worn matters or union prowitllii‘C and Mr Sempic. in bringing pro»,surr in bear on the men in fiftOiOKiM“. ‘wus destroying the ('lemrniary right; in! trades union democrary: and (m :that the ariiou taken in (liSlniSeing thn‘ milk-lain~ ol' the .\lotuekn brnnrh n! the‘ ixrw Zealami \Vorkers' Union is a wrench of the rights of trades union< ‘ism and is intimidation of any meniher or omcial who dares to criticise lany existing agreement. Tho' secretary o! the union. Mr T. Stanley. states that members made it clear that they were not criticising ,adversely the Labour Government but i are desirous of seeing the Government ’su‘ccesst‘ui in its endeavour to improve the lot of the workers. At the same time they considered that unless lsuch statements and notions were re—.pudiuted they tended to divide the ‘ranks of the workers rather than cor lsolidate them.