WATERSIDE WORKERS' UNION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 596, 26 August 1909, Page 6

WATERSIDE WORKERS' UNION.

THE EXPELLED DELEGATES BACKED UP?

j "We aro just two plain.working men;who come to a.newspaper offico ivith a bit of news," announced, tuo members- of • the - WellingtonWaterside Wdrkters' Union in.' the- office , of The DoiuNipN yesterday., 1 "But if.you' want - to know the body in which there is more dis-. sension than any other in the world,- it .is the Wellington Waterside Workers!-Union." i 'fhis was preliminary to giving, us the decir . sion of. avmeeting of tho-union held at Lyons'a Cafe; oh Puesdhy ■ evening for the jjurpose of. considering the action of tho union's delegates, Messrs.' T. M'Cann and A. L. Jones; •at the reoent oonferenco of tho New.'Zealand Wdter-.. side Workers. After a. discussion ".the. uuion, by a majority of'twelve, 1 , endorsed the action taken by-its delegates at the conference.- ■ . It will be remembered that the delegatee named questioned the right Dr M*Laren (organising 1 secretary-' of the fedetation,' and seoretary of. the local union), to vote, ;on whioh point- an:acrimonious' disoussion'' turned. The' chairman' ruled that- Mr. M'Ltasni'was entitled to vote on the ground': he olailned (that,' a 'delegate, ex officio).' Subsequently,' 'liter the conforenoo had. sat in oommittee, the, chairman reported the following resolution; —. . That this, conference ask- Mr., M'Cann and -Mr. Jones to retire,' on' the-'ground v, that they; have obstructed the. business, .misrepresented their'union, and are,injur: ing tho interests of our .federation," y. * This, he said, had been passed'without a dis-. sentient' voto. As . tho result, Messrs. M'Caim 'and Jones retired fronl - tlie • conference.:'' .. Subsequently,. the delegates asked.Uhp con-, ferenoe if it' would reoeivo ji -deputation 'of waterside workers, and the answer igiven was that'it would if the deputation was backed by the authority of. tho union, but nothing came of it," • -V