WATERSIDE UNREST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18939, 10 February 1925, Page 10

WATERSIDE UNREST.

iaiS BASIC WAGE INCREASE, STRONG WELLINGTON DEMAND. APPEAL TO FEDERATION. [BY TEI.E3RAPII. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Monday. A mass meeting of the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union passed a motion expressing its utmost dissatisfaction with the basic wage awarded by the Arbitration Court, and calling upon the executive of the New Zquland Waterside Workers' Federation to tako such action as it may deem advisable to obtain an increase in the basic wage. The meeting instructed tho executive of the Wellington Union to immediately confer with the national executive with a view to obtaining the united co-operation of all affiliated waterside workers' unions in the matter, and pledged itself to support any policy that might be decided upon by the executive of the federation for the purpose of increasing "the present inadequate wage of the waterside workers." It was further resolved that as the Judge of the Arbitration Court had stated in his memorandum to tho award that the waterside workers were employed on a average 35.64 hours a week ordinary time, tho meeting demanded that all members be employed this number of hours a week, that being necessary in order to obtain the basic wage allowed by the. Court.