Three thousand working men and women, with students and others in support, marched through Wellington in July 1974 to the Employers’ Federation Building in Molesworth Street. The march was partly in solidarity with the Secretary of the Northern Drivers Union, Bill Andersen, imprisoned earlier in the month for defying a Supreme Court injunction. But by the time of the march the motivation had centered on a more crucial issue: the prevention of further use of such injunctions which infringe the right of workers to withdraw their labour.
Although the original intention was to march on Parliament, negotiations late on the evening before the march between the Trades Council and Minister of Labour, Hugh Watt, resulted in limitations on the stop-work and march—essential services being maintained and the change of destination, being decided on.
See Salient for a more comprehensive report.
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Photographer: Keith Stewart