AUCKLAND WHARF WORKERS.
MEN EXCLUDED FROM UNION. AUCKLAND, June 2
A deputation waited on the Prime Minister this morning to protest against the existing conditions on the Aucidand waterfront, whereby, it is alleged, 200 men eligible for membership are shut out from the Waterside Workers’ Union. The speakers stated that at present the Waterside Workers’ Union was a close corporation. Mon who had for all their lives been employed as wharf labourers were shut out from their ordinary occupation, and many w.ere almost starving. Several cases of hardship were cited. Even men who had participated in the 1914 strike, it was contended, should bo no longer penalised. The Prime Minister offered to do what ho could personally in the case of the men whose individual position had been cited, and he promised to have an inquiry made into the main question raised as soon as ho got back to Wellington.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3195, 9 June 1915, Page 16
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150AUCKLAND WHARF WORKERS. Otago Witness, Issue 3195, 9 June 1915, Page 16
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