WATERSIDE LABOUR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1971, 30 January 1914, Page 8

WATERSIDE LABOUR.

Sir!—ln two .iijtorriqffs to-day Mr. Fletencr. is reported . as making tho fallowing statements':— . . ; . To Tiit. Dominhw: '.'Tho statement you have published from .the representative of,. the Now l Zealand. Shitfpinjj: Company backs up what • I skied. _ Tim fcnres lie quotes-arc nil against- himself. What he-says about badgeq is so thirl that" it won't wash.. Any mail handling labour on tho wharf knows, all tho old men thoroughly, and bv. this timo the foremen know ; prac tically'a}! tho new m<?n." To tho "Evcniug Post"; "Newspaper eritaeirnns had been made to tho effect that tho Harbour Board had ('escribed all men who liati not- jiitlvert-o been employed by, it as 'new' hands, altljou.eh they -might not bo Members of' the union who joined during the strike. Hon - elso could, they bo described? It. .was not to; bo espcet-ed that all the men applying for work wero known to tho foremen, and their- task was romlcral all the_ more difficult because the A rbi* trationists. showed a •pronounced reluct' iinc.6 .to "wear their badges." Things appear to b'e- a bit mixed.— I aft), etc., • . OBSERVER. , January 28, 1914. . .