WHARF TROUBLE
EMPLOYERS STAND FIRM AGREEMENT IS TERMINATED The shipowners and other employers of waterside workers met yesterday afternoon and discussed the situation that had arisen through the waterside workers having failed to turn, to at the usual hour, 8 a.m. yesterday, in order to hold j a meeting. Tho proceedings were not open to the press, but the following resolution was carried and forwarded to the general secretary of the Waterside Workers' Union : — "That thifi meeting of employers, who were parties to the agreement with the waterside workers dated 17th January, 1912, regard the refusal of the members of the union to commence work at the usual hour this morning as a flagrant breach of clause 28 of the contract existing between the employers and the union, and that the meeting inform the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union to that effect-, and ateo that they regard the agreement as terminated." This was signed by the chairman of the meeting (Mr. W. A. Kennedy).
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 99, 23 October 1913, Page 3
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163WHARF TROUBLE Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 99, 23 October 1913, Page 3
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