AMENDED CLAUSES REASONABLY RELAXED
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WELLINGTON, Dee. 9. A leading shipping ollieit^l said 011 Satunlay that il was pleasing to r.ote from the statement by il r. E. A. Napier that although he had previously char aelerised the Commission 's deeision as an insult to every waterside worker. he now agreed that the deeision cer tainly improved the situatiou from the point of view of the guarantoed wage. " It appears that Alr. Napier now •'ondemns the deeision because of pro posed amendnients to certain elauses whieh Mr. Napier eonstrnes as meaning that those elauses are to be slashed to sueh an extent its to mahe theni valtte less to the worker,'' said tlie ollicial. 1 ' Wliat the deeision imlieated regard ing those elauses was that their pro visions should be reasonably relaxed ti. euable the services of men to be trans ferritd or dispensed with when it was impractieable to continue to emplos them etliciently on any partieular job and that the system of spelling, where by tlie men work and spell hour about. should cease. Even A I r. Napier would (i n (1 it diflieult to justify opposition to t lioso requirements. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 December 1946, Page 5
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