WATERSIDE WORKERS

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24742, 6 December 1945, Page 6

WATERSIDE WORKERS

AUSTRALASIAN EXECUTIVE FORMED

(P^- } ~ - WELLINGTON, Dec. 5 Preliminary arrangements for the establishment of an Australasian waterside workers' executive were completed at the binennial conference of the New Zealand Waterside Workers Union, which has been meeting hV Wellington during the last fortnight Two representatives of the Australian Waterside Workers' Federation who had flown from Sydney for the meeting, gave their full support to the plan.

7p M i=rJ" s ? cr . e i ar y v of the New Zealand Union, said to-day' that the ct W -f- xecut i ve , would ex P lo re the possibilities of closer relationship between waterside workers on each side of the Tasman, and discuss the policies of both organisations. Further, a panPacific conference of waterside workers would be held at Auckland in AuS 3t Which ' in addit ton to Australian representatives there would be present two officers of longshoremen on the west coast of America.

The Australian delegates who have been attending the conference of the New Zealand Uni °n in Wellington are Mr George Mullins, secretary of the Sydney branch of the Australian Federation, and Mr E. C. Roach, assistant general secretary and organiser of the federation. The first members or the new Australasian executive will W a t^ e -J r «s de l nt of the Australian Waterside Workers' Federation, Mr J trS ga p*^ the^ eecretar y of "* Australian Federation, Mr J. Healy the president of the New Zealand Union, Mr H. Barnes, of Auckland, and thi» Mr ar T U &i? f l K^) v Zealand Un£ s£»i«^ HUl ' of Wellin Ston. The New Zealand representatives at the pan--255 SPSS* ** * Messrs