WATERSIDE WORKERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1916, Page 2

WATERSIDE WORKERS.

" ~ - (Br Telegraph.—Special ,to 'star.V-(. • PALMEESTQN" NORTH, this day. " On involved-position in regard to waterside labour, which has been causing perturbation in the minds of shipping people recently is to be the subject ofTa-further conference in Wellington to-mdfrowT" between'the- Waterside ~ "Arbitration'Feneration and the Shipown""ers r Federatibn:" The agreement reached 'between*ih*et*.pSttie3.on February 8 has met ..witk a mixed reception, having been rejected by Wellington,, Lyttelton, Dun--edin, Port. Chalmers and Bluff, because .' of their adherence to "the, 10; pjn. day . principle.in lieu .of the 24 hour day shift system provided in "the agreement. Auckland, rejected,.the ..agreement because it involved the abandonment of the prefer-ence-clause .under_the_rigbt of. selection. . The.agreement was accepted by Timaru, Wesfporti'Tictohj. Napier and New Ply.mouth. .The conference to-morrow is to discuss the 10 pjn. day clause. No immediate solution is jpffering for the problem. The employers have set their faces/against 16 pjn. ;clpsing, whereas it is an affirmed ' principle of the" Federation. Auckland-has continued to work 24 hours, a but if the Dominion Employers'Fedcration attempt to force the Auckland TJrii n to surrender the right : -of-'selection, it is not unlikely that the onion will retaliate by closing the port; at 10 pjn. The situation is pregnant with possibilities, but delegates hope for a peaceable. solution..