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MEMBERSHIP LIMITED. IMPORTANT ALTERATION. IN PREFERENCE CLAUSE. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Dec. 4. With regard to an alteration in the piererenoe clause the Arbitration Court says: “The most important change we have made in the award is the preference clause. The court lias always maintained the policy of open union, but it is recognised that the waterfront is a place to which the unemployed oi all trades gravitate. Watersiders’ Workers Unions accordingly have to carry more t-hun their fair share of the unemployed, and the consequent increase in their : membership reduces the earning capacity of the greater numbel of their members. We have endeavoured to decasualise waterside work as far as possible by providing ♦or a system of limitation of membership of the unions based on labour requirements in different ports. This will not prevent the employment of nonunion labour in rush times, but it is hoped it will diminish the number of the so-called “fringe” of men who frequent the wharves on the chance of picking up occasional jobs.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 December 1924, Page 5
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