WORK ON WATERSIDE
Contract System Likely At Auckland (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. August 25. That it was hoped to introduce the contract system for waterside work to the Auckland waterfront in two or three weeks was announced by the chairman of the Waterfront Control Commission, Mr. 11. E. Brice, tonight. Mr. Price, who arrived from Wellington with Captain H. McLeod, a member of the commission, said the third member of the commission, Mr. James Roberts, would arrive iu the morning and that they would meet the executive of the Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union to discuss the introduction of the contract system. The penalties incurred by the .140 men who, claiming that they had been engaged to work witli ship’s gear refused to continue unloading the Union Company’s motor-ship Waiana when asked to work with cranes, would be announced to the men. said Mr. Price. The penalties, lie said, were quite substantial.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 284, 26 August 1940, Page 12
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151WORK ON WATERSIDE Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 284, 26 August 1940, Page 12
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