No giving way
The Minister of Fisheries CMr Bolger) said yesterday that the Government had no intention of giving way in the dispute with the Seamen’s Union over the manning of the fisheries' - research vessels W. J. Scott and James Cook, tied up at Nelson. He told the annual conference of the Federation of Commercial Fishermen that he was “quite unhappy” that the boats had been tied up. The next move would be! to have talks with the acting Minister of Labour (Mr Thomson) about meeting the Seamen’s Union to try to resolve the dispute.
“We w’ant to get back to the position of last year,” said Mr Bolger. "We want to retain the right to have sole selection of the crews. We hope that the union will respond in the way it has in the past, and accept the former position.” The federation's president (Mr B. J. Kenton) said that the federation gave full support to the Minister’s stand. "Commercial fishing is a vastly different job from 'that usually done by merchant seamen, and we feel that commercial fishermen are the best-qualified people available to man all fishing vessels,” Mr Kenton said.
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