TV CAMERA ON WHARF
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Watersiders’ Strike Threat (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, January 31. Cargo-workers in Auckland today threatened to stop work if a closed-circuit television camera was not removed from Jellicoe wharf. A flrm was demonstrating a new type of camera for the Customs Department. By 10 am. all the necessary equipment was assembled with the lens of the camera focused on the gangway of the Van Noort. Little more than an hour later representatives of the Cargo-Workers’ Union approached the men on the unit and told them that unless all their equipment was cleared off the wharf by 1 p.m., the cargo workers would go on strike. “We don’t want to be watched as we work,” said Mr McMahon, the vice-presi-dent of the union. “How would you like it?” Rather than create a strike, the men on the unit dismantled the equipment and left.
Mr P. Prudhonne, manag-ing-director of the company, said that they had carried out several such demonstrations in various Government departments and had never before been met with any objections.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30045, 1 February 1963, Page 8
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