WATERFRONT LABOUR
FARMERS’ UNION’S PROPOSALS,
(Pm United Press Association.) WELLINGTON. July 28. At the Dominion Farmers’ Union Conference, Captain Colbeck moved that in view of the great importance to the public and the industries of tho dominion of the efficient control and working of the waterfront industry, it be an earnest recommendation to the Government that it institute a fairly exhaustive inquiry into the whole matter of oargo-handling at the various ports. Captain Colbeck said that under the present system a great waste resulted, and a better system was needed. Mr C. K. Wilson thought the contract system worthy of consideration. He mentioned that Sydney had a system which worked so well that there had been no strike for four years. Mr T. Moss said the scheme ot permanent labour which had just been commenced on the Wellington waterfront was so far Avorking satisfactorily. The motion was carried, as also was a motion that the Dominion Executive confer with the Government in evolving a scheme for the better control of waterfront labour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18310, 29 July 1921, Page 6
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