Union 'not after' work of fishermen
tag to take work from New Zealand ftshennjM In a report tajTlie Press” y® rt ® rd Vz H ? e president of the Lyttelton ! Fisherman’s Association, ;4” Mr Tony Treadwell, »said a the wate raiders, were looking at the . bigger trawlers and felt there could be work for their members in unloading them. ' \ ’•'? The president of ,-the Lyttelton Waterside Workers.. = Union, „Mr Arthur Beckett, said, Mr Treadwell was wellaware of the attitude of the union, at both a local and national level, r “It has been, traditional for New Zealand-creWed boats to unload their own catch,” he said. “There is no intention now or in the . future for the Lyttelton waterslders to claim, this work. '-I f , “We would encourage the New Zealand fishermen to have larger boats for fishing in our waters,” he said. • The Lyttelton watersidera would, however, continue to press for work coverage on owned and manned ships, until New Zealanders took | over these ships, - he said.
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