MUST BE ENDED

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1938, Page 10

MUST BE ENDED

WATERFRONT DELAYS

MINISTERIAL HINT

GOVERNMENT

CONTROL

Serious consideration has been given by the Government to labour conditions existing on the waterfront, and it Is Understood the point lias now been reached at which there is a definite prospect that legislation will be introduced to set up an organisation which will take over the control of all waterfront labour.

"The way the walorsiders have beem ' currying on cannot be tolerated anjr longer, and it1 they have not tho common sense to settle their differ«> enccs themselves, w*e will specdi!]' settle them for. them," declared tins Minister of Labour (the Hon. 11. 11. I Armstrong) today. The Minister's attention was drawn i to the present hold-up of shipping: ai; Napier and Greymouth, and he waai asked to indicate the Governmental attitude towards the disputes.' ; "NO GOVERNMENT CAN TOI.EBATJB:! THIS." "If the Union cannot , control Hsi men on the waterfront we will findC another organisation to do it," sai/1 Mr. Armstrong. "No Government cram tolerate this sort of thing any ltfhger; there is no excuse for it.'/ j "I am not saying that the men an c not right in their protcsts_ or who Ss right or wrong," the Minister added. "But they have provision in their own agreements for settling these disputes as they crop up from time to timne, without any interruption of the worjk at all."