WATERFRONT CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 71, 25 March 1940, Page 6

WATERFRONT CONTROL.

In answer to J.C. in vour Thursdav* issue. I would like to put another point of view. la m amazed farmer* and business men have tolerated so Ion? the ridiculous state of affairs on the water - front. Would we allow one union and one body of employers to control the OJovernment Treasury? If they did, would they be allowed to deplete ■the. funds by thousands of r«--unoV. and **on the maet imponam industry in tbe country for some slight differen •<■ between them. Tor example: — fa'. A slijrht nejrleet of duty-, "or ("bl tbc dismissal of one or two worker?. Ye; we allow two organisations, water-idetv and shipowners, to eonlrol *<.melnin2 infinitely more valuable, our expoi - - and imj»orts. We have seen the ma;'lime trade of our port stopped for <iav>- over a dispute involving one individual. The farmers, who produce mwi of tbo -_-oods exported, could not do ihi*. for ihev must work all the time to keen thenisehe. awl their -t.vk al'ne. A nan|«.n industry niil-t k.-et. L'oiiu*. '••: il irontrolltNl by (internment. ;:n<l Yi- 1,.-"n eotiipetilor- for the w..ik. i'.ui inn-e r<»|M.,,„il.],. f,, r ,]„. _j,,,..',._. :,.•. •vit>. til- ]..n<!n:- of the -]ii|i~. '..-, ,i U -.- 1 iiry held the key |...-ili..n. ,•..„!.] ;,',,y all our industries. Whatever dajijrer* J.C*. may see in live ehanjre. ibis key position must H*» guarded bv the representatives of ihc whole peoj.le. IjOOKKK-OX.