WORK ON WATERFRONT
PROPOSED PERMANENT STAFF.
UNIONISTS DISAPPROVE.
NO ALTERATION DESIRED.
Trre proposal that a permanent staff of waterside workers be formed to carry out the loading and unloading of vessels in Auckland was considered at a meeting of the Waterside Workers' Union on Saturday evening. The president, Mr. G. H. Wood, occupied the chair, and there wore about 600 members present.
A resolution was passed empowering the executive to take any steps it deemed necessary to oppose any new arrangement that might interfere with the working conditions now in existence on tho Auckland waterfront. The unanimous opinion prevailed that the establishment of a permanent staff similar to that proposed on the Wellington waterfront would be against the interests of unionism and of both the workers and tho shipping companies. At the meeting it was freely stated by members that the utmost good feeling existed at present between the members of the union and employers. In view of this, it was considered that the existing agreement, which does not expire until June, 1916, should be adhered to.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15659, 13 July 1914, Page 8
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177WORK ON WATERFRONT New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15659, 13 July 1914, Page 8
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