RIVAL UNIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13291, 29 January 1914, Page 8

RIVAL UNIONS.

AUCKLAND WATERSIDE MEN. A WELLINGTON MEETING. (Per Press Association.) AUOKLAND, last night. j' There a.c now two organisations of -i workers represented on the \vharyes. One (the Waterside Worker ts* Union) "j' was formed of arbitrationists during the ji recent, strike, and is working under a ;\ duly registered agreement with the employe! s. The other (the Auckland Coal ' &V- Cargo Workers' TJnion) is said to ir.'-vYe men who have been refused admittance to the fli'st organisation, and •who propose to apply to the Ai-bitiatibii Court for an award. The Waterside Workers' Union has boen using th© Av{a)tersiders" waitingroom, ■**-*. a. place, for its members to rr<!V.T ThemsteXws for wcfiCd, raid the r*n\mfc-.s of the Coal and Cargo Workers' Uni.in asked the Harbor Board to give them the same privilege.. The Harbor Bnr.rd considered the application ; it. conv.nittee,' and apparently, deemed .H inadvisable that members of the two ' unions Should, use the same premises. V The Board resolved that m ...the . me^niimo temporary accommodation "be proV vidfed at the King's wharf* for tbe members of the Coal and Cargo Workers' Union, and that when tlio . Arbitration Court sits the Board oppose making the waiting-room the «-place where- labor is to be engaged: for either union. WELLINGTON, last night. A meeting of members of the Wharf laborers' Union, presided Pver by Mr •F. Cnntice (President of the_ old Water- • side Workers' Union), to-night carried ' absolutions censtii-ing the e"jte<Witiv>6 of the new union for failing ;? to call a meeting, and calling' vpfcn theiln. to convene a meeting, explain . their, conduct, and tender \heir resignatiprts-.'' -Another resolution expressed regret nt the action of the executive m continually fostering a spirit of enmity between the -old and new members of the unions by a press controvetsy over the