Gallery - Ending the Post Office Go-Slow

Television (Full Length) – 1970

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All hail, O Brian Edwards! Last night on Gallery, alone and unafraid, in one of the most dramatic confrontations we’ve ever seen on New Zealand television he ended the Post Office “strike”.
– The Taranaki Herald, 1970

...in preparation for this improbable confrontation, I had come to two conclusions — that the continuation of the go-slow related less to the actual issues than to the complete breakdown of communication between the parties involved, and that the chicken and the egg phenomenon, with government refusing to talk until the Post Office Association called off the go-slow and the Post Office Association refusing to call off the go-slow until government agreed to talk, was, at this level of industrial relations, nothing less than infantile.
– Brian Edwards in his 1971 book The Public Eye