PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS.
AN IMPORTANT EXPLANATION. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Wednesday. '• In a memorandum attached to the Arbitration Court's award in the Wellington wharf labourers' dispute, Judge Sim states that in connection with the granting of preference to unionists it is desirable to make it clear that an employer i will only commit a breach of the award if he employs a non-unionist when a member of the union equally qualified to do the particular work required to be done is at the place of engagement ready to be engaged. In work such as that done in the port of Wellington, where the traffic is carried on so largely by steamers running to time-table, it was essential in the public interest that no delay should take place in the handling of cargo, and an employer therefore was not bound to wait for the arrival of members of the union. If they were not available when workers had to be engaged the employer was free to engage any worker who was available.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13708, 26 March 1908, Page 5
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