WATERSIDERS’ EXECUTIVE

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1945, Page 2

WATERSIDERS’ EXECUTIVE

N.Z.—AUSTRALIAN MERGER. WELLINGTON, December 5. Preliminary arrangements for the establishment of an Australasian Waterside Workers’ Executive were completed at the biennial conference of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union, which had been meeting in Wellington during the last fortnight. Two representatives of the Australian Waterside Workers’ Federation, who had flown from Sydney for the meeting, gave their full support to the plan. Mr. T. Hill, Secretary of the New Zealand Union, said to-day that the new executive would explore the possibilities of a closer relationship between the waterside workers on each side of the Tasman Sea and would.discuss the policies of both organisations. Further, a Pan-Pacific conference of Waterside Workers would be held at Auckland in February, at which, in addition to Australian representatives, there would be present two officers of the Longshoremen on the west coast of America. The Australian delegates who have been attending the conference of the New Zealand Union in Wellington are Mr. George Mullins, the Secretary of-the Sydney branch of the Australian Federation, and Mr. E. C. Roach, Assistant General Secretary and Organiser of the Federation. The first members of the new Australasian executive will be: The President of the Australian Waterside Workers’ Federation, Mr. J. Longergan; the Secretary of the Australian Federation, Mr. J. Healy; the President of the New Zealand Union, Mr. H. Barnes. (Auckland); and the Secretary of the New Zealand Union, Mr. T. Hill (Wellington). The New Zealand representatives at the Pan-Paci-fic conference will be Messrs Barnes and Hill.