COURT WRIT PROPOSED
MOUNTPARK DISPUTE WATERSIDERS’ STATEMENT (P-A.) WELLINGTON. March 11. “We have proposed to the Waterfront Industry Commission that the matter of the Mountpark be determined legally.” said Mr. H. Barnes, president of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union, last night. “We have asked the commission to accept a writ claiming that the men on the Mountpark were wrongfully dismissed and seeking appropriate damages. We proposed that the Mountpark be isolated to permit the resumption of overtime work on and the manning of every other vessel in the port of Auckland.”. Mr. Barnes added that so far the commission has given no reply. He alleged that shipping was being delayed at Auckland not by the Waterside Workers’ Union, which _ was anxious to work all shipping in the minimum number of hours, but by the Waterfront Industry Commission, one of whose main functions was to expediate the turn round of shipping.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22584, 12 March 1948, Page 6
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