WATERSIDE HOLD-UP.
SUBSTANTIAL PENALTIES. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 25. That it -was hoped to introduce the contract system for waterside work to the Auckland waterfront in two or three weeks was announced by the chairman of the Waterfront Control Commission (Mr R. E. Price) to-night. Mr Price, who arrived from Wellington with Mr H. McLeod, a member of the commission, said the third member (Mr James Roberts) would arrive in the morning and that they would meet the executive of the Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union to discuss the introduction of the contract system. The penalties incurred by the 140 men who, claiming that they had been engaged to work with the ship’s gear, refused to continue unloading the Union Company’s motor-ship Waiana when asked to work with cranes would be announced to the men, said Mr Price. The penalties, lie said, were quite substantial, '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 229, 26 August 1940, Page 2
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