NO SATURDAY AFTERNOONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 13 June 1945, Page 4

NO SATURDAY AFTERNOONS

AUCKLAND WATERSIDERS’ DECISION Auckland, June 12. The Auckland waterside workers again resolved at a stop-work meeting to-day that they would not work on Saturday afternoons and the decision will come into effect this week-end. Other resolutions were that they would work night shifts and on Sundays only on overseas food ships loading for the United Kingdom and, during the present emergency, on coal ships. There would be no night shift Saturday afternoon or Sunday work on American vessels, and the union would reconsider in two months’ time the abolition of Sunday and night shift work. In cases of emergency employers could apply to the local union executive for permission to work ships. The union’s stop-work meeting is usually held on the second Wednesday of- the month, but was convened to-day as the president of the Auckland branch and the New Zealand Waterside Workers ’ Union, Mr Barnes, will leave by flying-boat to-morrow morning for Sydney, where this week he will attend the Australian Trade Union Congress, and next week a meeting of the National Council of the Waterside Workers’ Federation.

It is believed that the resolutions passed in Auckland to-day will be put to stop-work meetings of waterside workers at other ports in New Zealand to-morrow. “The Waterfront Control Commission is aware of the resolutions,” said the chairman, Captain R. E. Price, who is in Auckland to-night. “The shipping urgency still exists and I will be travelling back to Wellington to discuss the matter with my fellow commissioners.”