WORK AND WAGES.
A PBOUIiIAB.POSITION
£PRESS: ASSOCIATION.]
AUCKLAND, Jan. 16. ~ Th& shipping ~ companies and em;ployers of wfoajf labor have filed a dispute under; the Arbitration Act, and the 30thi jha» been fixed as the ■date for th© hearing. The position is peculiar. Th<? local branch of the. Waterside t^crkers' , Union recently took a vote.mtli a view to cancellation of regtcfcration,' and carried the proposal by a considerable majority, but when the matter came before the Registrar he- refused to cancel the registration on the ground that the majority was not a majority of the j total members of the union. THe employers ask for various modifications of the existing award, including the exclusion of the preference clause.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 13, 16 January 1912, Page 8
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117WORK AND WAGES. Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 13, 16 January 1912, Page 8
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