Non-Union Wharfies' Big Claim For Profits
AUCKLAND, Sept. 10. 1 Joined as a eo-defendant with the \\ aterfront Industr^ Commission to resist the claim of non-unionists for the pavmeiit of the iirofit distribution from tlie cooperative contract account, the l nion will soon be engaged in another protracted, legal argument. The aum iuvolved is expected to run into six (igures, but the estimate that it may be as high as £500,000 is .discounted. The proceedings will bring to a head important issues concerning the dis[laritv of payment for waterfront labour. The Auckland longshoremen, on whose behalf the proceedings have been begun, have suggested that the Watersiders' Union will make an early liid for the management of the waterfront industry, and it wants the money now held in the disputed account to buy equipment and set up as a stevedoring contraetor on its own, thus getting rid of the AVaterfront Industry Commission, with which its relations are at present strained, and concerning whose future. ther.e. ig gileh.ee ia iMuafc.i'iil eii'eles,
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 September 1948, Page 5
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168Non-Union Wharfies' Big Claim For Profits Chronicle (Levin), 11 September 1948, Page 5
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