WATERSIDE WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 9, 11 January 1912, Page 3

WATERSIDE WORKERS

OEMANDS OF THE CONFERENCE FOR OPEN AND FOR TIDAL PORTS. UNIFORM CONDITIONS SOUGHT. After sitting in conference for th© pa&t thra* d»ys, r representatives of waterside workers throughout the Dominion have framed demands for a uniform agreement, which shall include and cover all waterside workers in New; Zealand. These demands are divfded into two headings : those for open ports and those for tidal ports'. During' the ' past few months there has been a gen. eral secession of waterside workers' unions from the Arbitration , Act to . affiliation with tho Federation of Labonr. Representative officials of this latter organisation have assisted materially in the conference just concluded. To-day these demands were submitted to the shipowners at a conferent* ¦which is being held in camera. In th«f late afternoon yesterday the preliminaries wero arranged, for to-day's meeting. The workers -will be represented a* tiiMS conclave by tho delegates who framed the conditions. The delegates of ibe shipoing companies are as follow :: — > Messrs C. Houldsworth (general manager of the Union Company), Aik«a (assistant general manager of th* Union Company), Captain Watkins (Lyfctetton), Captain M'Dongall (Lyttelton), Messrs iTonng (Timaru), Garrard (Christ* otiurch), Captain, Hutchinson (Blackball Coal Company), Captain Richards (Blackball Coal Company), Messrs. M'Kinnon (Blackball Coal Company), • Bennett (New Zealand Shipping Com- | pany, Christchurch), G. H. Scales (Wei- j iington), .A. St. Clair Whyte (Nearing and Co., Auckland), Mr. John Mill* (Port Chalmers), Mr. Deck (Patea Shipping Company), Captain M'Arthur (Mac/riland Steam Shipping Company), Messrs. C. W. Jones (Hud dart Parker Company), W. E. Fuller (Levin and Co.), Turner (Blackball), Gal« (Johnston and Co.), Zohrab (Wellington Harbour Ferries Company), Flavell (West« port Coal Company), Thompson (Kararoe* Shipping ' Company), Nicholls (secretary Wellington Harbour Board), Weston (solicitor Wellington, Harbour Board), Pilcher and Gillesby (Tyneside. Proprietary), W. Rodgera (Anchor Company), H. L. Nathan (Tyser Line), W. A. Kennedy (Union Company), D. Ryan ¦ (Auckland Shipowners' Federation), R. C. Renner (Patea Shipping Company), iWallace (New Zealand' and African Company). ,