CASUAL LABOUR ON THE WATER FRONTS.
SUGGESTED CONTROL BY SL is COMMISSION. 3p
(PKBSS ASSOCIATION . TOJKJRAiI.) ';.'; •';;f^| 'WELLINGTON, November At tho Harbour Board meetingV ; night a- suggestion was put forward the establishment in each of the large ports of a standing comraittoo mission of nine members, representioglfyf the following. interests: — Board, ocean-going, coastal vessels coal-workers; Department (one each), waterside bourers (2), and a should "be a Stipendiary representing the Government., ; M : -?'.T&||§| duties of the commission would determine tho amount of casual required from month to month season of the year, and to omploj number of hands at a minimum wage, waterside labour to be from, the commission, and employed till tho panel was exhausteflff| The commission should alsp-miike quiry into and adjudicate -on...all : ';colp:-lH plaints .against. or> nave power to keep lists, purged of desirables. Provision would.|be for a provident fund end accident in- £ suranco. ; '.'.'■ ;:":'■ .. •" li -.' i ■;.:;,;;, y;S?:i The Board supported the;suggestion a.nd appointed the .chairman (Mr R. '<-% and Messrs C. P. Jones arid " R. A. Wright, to represent it atvftny s% conferences that niay be held regard- - l ri ing it. ~A
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14834, 27 November 1913, Page 8
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