WATERSIDE LABOUR.
1,000 SURPLUS •WORKERS. The state of affairs just now prevailing on the waterfront -with regard to labour is distinctly unsettled. Mr. Woods, president nf the Waterside Workers' Union, told a "Star" reporter to-day that at present there were at least 1,000 men seeking work on the wharves and unable to obtain it. Of thesp about 500 were members of his union and the rest were not. while some 500 men were already at work upon the wharves.
The condition of wharf labour. Mr. Wood* stated, indicated to a great extent the state of the labour market as a whole. When work was scarce men were used to falling back upon wharf labour as a means of tiding over a time of stress. In the past the Waterside Workers' Union .had bad no power to limit the number of its membership, and when little other work was offering the wharves became the casual labour dumping ground. Mr. Woods thought that the numerous applications for work which he was receiving at present were directly due to the bad conditions prevailing in the labour market.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 48, 25 February 1914, Page 7
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