STRICTER SUPERVISION

Chronicle (Levin), 9 November 1946, Page 7

STRICTER SUPERVISION

-Press Association

CONVICTED THIEVES AND WHARF JOBS !

By Telegraph-

AUCKLAND, Nov. 8. !. • A conflict of opinion betwceu Har- ' botii Boai'ds on the oue hand and the police, aterside Workers Unions and Waterfront Indusfcr^.,Commission on the other, wus reveaJecL when delegates toi the annuai confer^hbe of the- Harbours AssbjCiation - discns§ed an O'tigo retnit | urgih'g that t^he- enlpipyment 'on wjiarves of pbfsofls Conyjcted.^f theffe or pillago on -the' wa teffroiit •'••should be tlie aubjeci of 'uni%M'*aefion. at- all ports. Mr. J, Kentoif '('Gtago'), said at present, the Commissi^was oye'r-riding his Board's by-litw %Ypefni'ifi:iiig: certain [ of these men to resume their occupation j on the waterfront. He asked if al! Boards were satisfled witli the Com- j mission 's practiee.- | Mr. W. R. Clarke (Otago) said it ! was useless to have difl'erent by-laws in each port and urged tliat there should be grealer control of menibers of Waterside Workers Unions. who transferred from port to port, probablv changing their names. Tf a record were kept by Ihe Commission, all Boards could be no'tified. Uniformity was necessary, said the chairman, Mr. W. II. Price (Wellington), who said the penulty system was in force long before the Commission and had worked very satist'aetorily until Ihe last two years when certain unions eonsidered the regulations too liarsh. A j man might be barred by the Boards but ; he was still entitled to union prefer--enee. ' '-Bome for.uiula should be fouiid. to.cofrect these abuses," coutinued Mr. Price. "The amount of pillaging in, New Zealand is notorious and ab though most of it is done before thio. ships come here, we want to keep ouf wharves clean. " : The- unions should supervise tlie 1 movements of men from place to place to protoet Harbour Boards, said Sir Charles Norwood' (Wellington) who pointed out that when the law had punished. a man he had the full right to the King's highway and probably to the wharves. "T am afraid we will receive verv little help from the police," said Mr. D. Holderness (Auckland). "Their yiew is that a man must not- be penalised after a court penalty lias been paid. That is a point whicli will havo a eonsiderable bearing on what boards will be able to do with these people." The Otago remit was Teferred to the executive.