WAGE INCREASE
2s An Hour Sought AUCKLAND MOVE BY WATERSIDERS PA AUCKLAND, May 9. A stop-work meeting of the Aucland Watersiders’ Union decided today to instruct the national president, Mr H. Barnes, and the national secretary, T, Hill, to proceed with a claim for 2s an hour increase in wage rates. This was announced after the meeting by Mr Hill and again in the afternoon by the Auckland president, Mr A. Drennan.
Commenting on the resolution, Mr Drennan linked it with another which the meeting passed dealing with shipments of arms overseas. He said that since Mr Holland seemed to be linking subsidy reductions with the country’s military commitments, the union had decided that the question of living standards and wages was going to be conditioned by the question of peace or war.
The second resolution the meeting passed was prefaced with a reference to the union’s support of the New Zealand Peace Movement and stated that “ as a first step towards world peace, we declare an emphatic refusal to load any arms or troops to any war area.”
Mr Drennan remarked that this applied not only to Malaya but to the world situation as a whoie.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27385, 10 May 1950, Page 6
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