WATERSIDE WORK
EFFECTS OF RESTRICTION
Inquiries were made as to what further extent the restriction of meat imports from the Dominion would have on the reduced amount of work available at the pr< «sent time for waterside workers as v result of the shipping position created by the war and also the effect on ;their earnings. None of the officials ir fterviewed. however, was prepared to jmake any statement for publication atf present on this aspect. i
Mr. R. E. Pric»e, chairman of -the Waterfront Control Commission, after consulting his colleagues on the commission, said he*, did not wish to discuss the matter 'at present. Captain C. Vanden-Berglj,, manager of the Wellington Waterf- font Labour Bureau, also had no co pnment to make.
The question t, was also raised with Mr. E. E. Car.Oham, president of the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union, who replied th; it he did not care to discuss the ma# er before it had been considered by the executive of the union. The next meeting of the executive was to be held in about twelve days' )time.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1941, Page 10
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180WATERSIDE WORK Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1941, Page 10
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