CONCILIATION COUNCIL

Evening Star, Issue 15432, 4 March 1914, Page 4

CONCILIATION COUNCIL

WATERFRONT DIFFICULTIES. [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, March 4. The Conciliation Council to-day considered an application by the newly-formed Coal and Cargo Workers' Union, principally representing ex-strikers, for mi agreement and an allround increase on wages paid under the prestrike agreement, A further application was made io join the Auckland Waterside Workers' (Arbitration) Union as parties to the agreement. The employers cited declined to discuss the matter, and the case will therefore go io the Arbitration Court direct. In the course of the proceedings, replying to the employers, Mr Way, on bohalf of the, union, said that ever since the strike between 600 and 700 practical waterside workers had been absolutely refined employment on the wharves owing to the fact' that they were not members of the Arbitration Union, who had declined to admit them to membership, notwithstanding sworn affidavits that the i replicants believed in the principle of Arbitration^

The Commissioner agreed to the Arbitration Union being joined in the dispute The president, of the latter union challenged several of the statements made by Mr Way.