WATERSIDERS REJECT AWARD
NO STRIKE LIKELY. A POLITICAL DODGE. [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 16. It is learned here on good authority that the voting of-the branches of the New Zealand. Waterside Workers’ Federation has gone in favor of rejecting the recent award, the results having been announced to the annual conference in Auckland. "But, despite tho result of tho ballot, there will bo no strike," stated waterside workers to a ‘Rest’ reporter today. They added that tho watersidcre desired to use a constitutional method to rectify their grievances, and that the officials of the federation, who are also officials of tho Alliance of Labor, don’t want a strike, because they are frightened of the now union which has been formed in Wellington. The ballot was only a political dodge.
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Evening Star, Issue 18175, 16 January 1923, Page 6
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131WATERSIDERS REJECT AWARD Evening Star, Issue 18175, 16 January 1923, Page 6
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