WATERFRONT ACTION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23859, 9 January 1941, Page 8

WATERFRONT ACTION

TWO MEETINGS HELD DISMISSED WORKERS RETURN DECIDING POLICY OF UNION The five waterside workers who walked off their jobs on Monday and Tuesday when asked to handle butter and cheese from the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company's cool stores were reinstated on the waterfront yesterday. The position of the men, who suffered the usual penalty—which is being stood down for two days. or. as in this case, for the duration of the job on which they were engaged at the time of dismissal- —will be investigated by the Waterlront Control Commission. A two-hour stopwork meeting of' waterside workers was held yesterday morning when, alter domestic problems had been discussed, questions were asked regarding the Waterside Workers' Union's attitude to the cool store dispute. The secretary of the union, Mr. A. Girven, was asked to call a special meeting of the executive. This was held in the afternoon but was adjourned until full details of the dispute and the representative attitude of freezing workers throughout the province could be ascertained from the Auckland Freezing Workers and Related Trades' Union. No statement about the discussion at the stopwork meeting or at the special executive meeting was made by the Waterside Workers' Union yesterday. Although no definite policy could be formed yesterday by the union, the general feeling among waterside workers and officials was that the waterfront would not be involved in the cool store workers' dispute.