WATERSIDERS PLAN FOR PAN-PACIFIC MEETING

Evening Star, Issue 26136, 25 June 1947, Page 4

WATERSIDERS PLAN FOR PAN-PACIFIC MEETING

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 24. From Alaska down to Chile and m Australia and New Zealand, waterside workers are now completing preparations for a Pan-Pacific conference of waterfront unions, to be field soon at Honolulu. Radio-telephone communication was established to-day between the national executive of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union, sitting in Wellington, and the secretary of the International Longshoremen’s Union,, Mr Harry Bridges; ( of San Francisco. Officials of the New Zealand union heard Mr Bridges tell the details of the plans which are now nearly completed for the meeting. Mr H. Barnes, president of the New Zealand union, said to-night that the conference would be held at Honolulu, and that Mr Bridges already had all the longshoremen’s organisations, from Chile to Alaska, ready for the conference. It now remained for Mr Bridges to come to ah arrangement with Mr Vincent L. Foledano, secretary of the Mexican Federation of Labour and a member of the executive of the World Federation of Trade Unions, to complete the arrangements. Mr Toleda.no had been attending a meeting of the executive of the World Federation in Europe, and Would return to America Soon.