HANDLING OF CARGO

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24739, 3 December 1945, Page 6

HANDLING OF CARGO

ALL-IN CONTRACT SCHEME WATERSIDE WORKERS' PROPOSAL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, December 1. Waterside workers are planning a co-operative company on a national scale to take over the loading and unfading of ships in the major New Zealand ports on an all-in contract basis. Details, it is understood, are a subject for'discussion at the conference of the New Zealand Waterside Wo s e £?' Union, which has been sitting in Wellington this week. Union officials claim that the contract scheme will create greater efficiency on the waterfront and promote a quicker turn-round of ships. They contend that it will eliminate delays over disputes and prove more satisfactory to ajl parties concerned. t Means to establish greater control for workers in other sections of the industry are understood to be under discussion within the trade union movement. „ . Representative watersiders state that in the accounts of the Waterfront Control Commission there are funds standing to the credit of the waterfront industry from which they believe thev will be entitled to draw when they purchase gear for the co-operative company.