FORTY-SIX VESSELS HELD UP
WATERSIDERS STILL SILENT
A fear is openly expressed in some quarters that a settlement of the waterside difficulty will not be reached this week. The Waterside Workers' Federation has not yet replied to the demand for assurances made by the employers in their first ultimatum and repeated at the conference held on Saturday. It is certain that the employers will require a satisfactory guarantee that the federation and the respective unions will not place any restrictions upon the working of overtime. But they will want more than that. The exact nature of the assurance is not being revealed for the present, but is said to be more drastic than is generally imagined.
In answer to a question, Mr. W. H. Bennett, representing the employers, stated that the time allowed for a reply from the federation was not specified. The federation promised aa answer early this week.
The position was further discussed at a meetattg of the Waterside Worked' Union, held at 9 o'clock this morning. A report was received from tho federation, and was adopted unanimously. The official report of the proceedings does not go beyond that.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 51, 1 March 1921, Page 8
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