WATERSIDE WORKERS

Otago Witness, Issue 3593, 23 January 1923, Page 53

WATERSIDE WORKERS

AUCKLAND, January 15. At the Waterside Workers’ Federation Conference the following officers were elected: —President, Mr L. Glover; secretary. Mr J. Roberts (both re-elected) ; vicepresident, Mr N. Campbell (Port Chalmers). Messrs Glover, Roberts, and J. ’ Laurenson were elected representatives on the National Disputes Committee with power to select a fourth representative. Executive—Messrs W. Craig, C. Fraser, J. O. Johnson, O. M'Brine, H. M‘Lei lari, O. Noukes, W. J. Rogers, and J. Williams. THE AWARD REJECTED. WELLINGTON, January 16. Tt is learned here on good authority that the voting of the branches of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Federation has gone in favour of rejecting the recent award, the results having been announced to the annual conference in Auckland. “But, despite the result of the ballot, there will be no strike,” stated waterside workers to a Post reporter to-day. They added that the waterside workers desired to use a constitutional method to rectify their grievances, and that the officials of the federation, who are also officials of ihe Alliance of Labour, do not want a strike, because they are frightened of the new union which has been formed in Wellington. The ballot was only a political dodge.