AUCKLAND WATERFRONT TROUBLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9740, 5 March 1914, Page 3

AUCKLAND WATERFRONT TROUBLES.

ATTEMPT BY NEW I'NTON TO GET AWARD. (Per Press Association.) AI CKLAND, March 4. The Conciliation Council considered an application by the riewh-formed Coal and Cargo Worker;)' Cnion, principally representing ex-si rikers, for au agreement and an all-rmuid increase, on the wages paid under the pro-strike agreement. Further application was made lo join the Auckland Waterside WckerV (Arbitration) L nion as parties to the agrouivmt. The employers cited declined to discuss the matter and the ease goes to tho Arbitration ( ourt, direct.

In tho course of proceedings, replying :o the employers, Mr Way. on behalf' of tho Union, stated that ever sinco tho strike between mx and eeveii hundred practical waterside workers had bixn absolutely refused employment on the wharves owing to the fact ihat tho Arid;ration l'nion had declined to admit then to nieml>ership, not Rithstaiiding thai they had sworn affidavits thai the applicants 'x-hVved m the principle of arbitration

riii' ('ommissioner asrrood io the Arbitration L'liiun_ being joined in the dispute. The president of in© Arbitration Union challenged several of the jrtatcmontfl made by Mr Wav.