BUREAU SYSTEM
WATERSIDERS’ BALLOT
[PER PREUS ASSOCIATION.]
AUCKLAND, July 18.
To lest the opinion of the workers whether the Auckland waterfront labour bureau systepi should be continued. a secret ballot of members of the Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union was held to-day. The result, of the ballot will be announced tomorrow. The waterfront labour bureau has now been in operation at Auckland since September. 1937, and it is considered that sufficient time has now been given for the merits and demerits of the system to be judged. Devised to eliminate the old “auction block” method of selecting men for work on the wharves, the bureau system has met. with fairly general approval among the workers. That, the work is allotted to the men on the rotation principle is disliked by some sections, while others are averse to the working of the penalty clauses. A ballot held last week by the Wellington union decided by 103 G votes to 327 to continue the waterfront labour bureau system in Wellington.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 July 1939, Page 5
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