STRONG CRITICISM
WATERFRONT WAGES OPPOSITION CONDEMNATION “SACRIFICE A MOCKERY" (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday The I?on. A. Hamilton*, Leader of the Opposition, today strongly condemned the latest wages and working conditions agreed upon for watersiders. “ With Flanders fields stained with the blood of Allied troops, with tens of thousands of our own volunteers trained for a similar supreme sacrifice in the interests of all we hold dear, with an overwhelming majority of non-combatant people in the Dominion stating their readiness to make any voluntary sacrifice a;sked, a Party Government gives watersiders an unwarranted increase in wages,” said Mr Hamilton. All the rates were on the peacetime basis of a 40-hour week. Nothing could be more designed to blast the spontaneity of our war effort. Equality of sacrifice was a mockery. He did not believe the genuine worker of this country would tolerate such a flagrant breach of the spirit of our nation.
“ This is not sacrifice; it is pillage, concluded Mr Hamilton.
A report spf the order governing wharf work was made by the Waterfront Control Commission appears on Page 10.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21137, 12 June 1940, Page 8
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