HOURS OF ENGAGEMENT
AN AUCKLAND INCIDENT.
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AUCKLAND, This Day. The Auckland waterside workers, taking objection to the loss of time in ■waiting about the wharves, decided to assemble in the shed on tho wharf daily between 8 and 9 a.m. and between 1 and 2 p.m. to afford the shipping companies an opportunity to engage- men for employment. To-day they waited for the prescribed time, and as there was no request for men they left. When a shipping company agent later came to engage forty men for an island steamer, he found the watersiders' room deserted. Tho secretary of the union states that the men are acting on their own initiative.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 28, 1 February 1917, Page 8
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115HOURS OF ENGAGEMENT Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 28, 1 February 1917, Page 8
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