"THE POSITION IS SERIOUS."
I , XAPIER CARGO HANDS. (By Telcsrarh—Press Association.) Auckland, January 16. Thp shipping companies and employers of wharf labour have filed a. dispute under the Arbitration Act, and January 30 has been fixed as the date of hflaring* •The position is peculiar. Tlio "local branch of the Waterside Workers' Union recently took a vote, with a view to the cancellation of registration, and carried a proposal. by .1 considerable majority; but when the matter caino l>efore the.Registrar he refused to cancel the registration on the ground that the majority was not a majority of the (ota.l members of the union. The employers ask for various mollifications of the existing award, including<exclusdon of the preference clause. A meeting of waterside workers was held last evening to consider matters connected with the present dispute. The mooting was not open to the pVess, but the nscretary, seen by a reporter, said: "Thero is nothing to make public, but the position is serious."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1339, 17 January 1912, Page 6
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162"THE POSITION IS SERIOUS." Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1339, 17 January 1912, Page 6
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