WATERSIDE WORKERS' DISPUTE

Evening Star, Issue 17924, 21 March 1922, Page 4

WATERSIDE WORKERS' DISPUTE

[Per Unwed Piiess Association.] WELLINGTON, March 21. Tn tho Arbitration Court, the parties io the watorr/ido workers' dispute wco unable to agroo, upon a date and place of homing. Mr Robert?, for tho unkm, said: that tliey were halfway through the bearing of disputes ■before Conciliation UouriciSs in various parts of the Dominion, 'i'bo union was not ready to proceed with, the case next week. If separate awards wcie jnado thero woidd bo twenty-eight dijferont awards for watersidors in New Zealand. Ho suggested that if tho case wan heard in tho different centres, then a Dominion award might be made. Mr J. Smith, for the empioycra, said that the application was for a local award. Ho could t'-se no i-eawm why the ca,<:o (should not l<> heard here, whoro tho Doniiitionr. applied to .93 per'cent, of these in the other ports. .Mr Justice Fraixr asict that the court prcfonvrd to boar tho dispute in. at lea fit two centres before giving an award in a

■bifr dispute. 'j-'ivs particfl ulUmaff-ly n-frrwd wjt:i tho fiu.j;c;-35tr'r,n of the lVo:-:i(knt of the court that they moot liim this afternoon to'diccufis the method of pruoediure,