A PECULIAR POSITION.
tPer Press Association.) Auckland, January 16. The shipping companies and employers of wharf labour have Hied a dispute under the Arbitration Act. The 30th inst has been fixed as the date of hearing. The position is peculiar. The local branch of the Waterside Workers’ Unio3i recently took a vote with a view to cancellation of registration, and carried the proposal by a considerable majority, but when the matter' came before the Registrar he refuged to cancel on the ground that the majority was not a majority of the total members of the union. The employers ask for various modifications in the existing award, including the exclusion of the ©reference clause.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 28, 16 January 1912, Page 6
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