STILL GOING. SLOW

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 251, 23 October 1945, Page 6

STILL GOING. SLOW

WORKERS ON WATERFRONT Auckland watersiders, on resuming work this morning after the Lr.bour Day holiday, continued their go-slow policy on all ships in port. The secretary of the Auckland Trades Council, Mr. W. Ashton, attended a meeting of the Waterside Workers' Union executive this morning. and reported on his communication with the acting-Minister of Labour, 'Mr. O'Brien, who had promised to hold a conference to investigate the union's claims when the men resumed normal work. The go-slow policy was adopted on the Glen Line freighter Denbighshire on October 9, after a Waterfront Control Commission foreman had discharged a man. Last Tuesday a meeting of the union decided to go slow on all ships, and work has proceeded at a greatly reduced rate on every vessel in port since then. The Auckland Trades Councii, at its monthly meeting on Thursday night, passed a resolution that the Government should be requested to convene a meeting in Auckland immediately to settle the waterside workers' claims.