WATERSIDE WORKERS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 48, 6 December 1945, Page 6

WATERSIDE WORKERS

AUSTRALASIAN EXECUTIVE PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. ; Preliminary arrangements for the establishment, of an Australasian Waterside Workers’ Executive were completed at the bieh-; , i nial conference of the I<Tew' Zea-> land Waterside Workers’ Union, • which has been meeting in Wellington during the last fortnight. Two representatives of the Australian Waterside Workers’ Federation who had flown from Sydney for’ the meeting gave ,their full support to the plan. Mr T. Hil, secretary of the New 55eaiand Union, said yesterday that the new executive would explore the possibilities of closer relationship between the waterside workers on each, side of the Tasman, and discuss the policies of both organisations. A Pan-Pacific conference of waterside workers; would be held in Auckland in February, at which, in addition to Australian representatives, there would be two officers representing longshoremen on the west coast of America. The Australian delegates who have been attending the conference of the New Zealand Union in Wellington are the Hon. George Mullins, secretary of the Sydney branch of the Australian Federation, and Mr E. C. Roach, assistant general-secretary and organiser of the Federation. The first members of tlie new Australasian executive will be the president of the Austraian Waterside Workers' Federation, Mr J." Lohergah; the secretary of the Australian Fed’eration, Mr J. Healy, the president of the New Zealand Union, Mr H. Barnes (Auckland), and the secretary of the New Zealand Union, Mr T. Hill (Wellington).

The New Zealand representatives at the Pan-Pacific conference will be Messrs Barnes and Hill.