WATERSIDE DISSENSION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1987, 18 February 1914, Page 6

WATERSIDE DISSENSION.

'■•'■-•■ ' 9 -^~ • NEW. UNION BMNS FORMED. The latest move the local waterfront is in the d.ire.otkn of forming a new union to lie known as tho Wellington Cenl and Cargo Workers' Union. Tiio intfinbei's of tlio no* body, or most of them, are- at present members of tiro iSistuig Wharf Labourers' Union, and it is understood that nearly all of them aro Federafcioa t:f Labour sympathisers. It is believed that, a prominent part- in the formation of the new union ■ is being kfceii by Messrs. G. G< Farlaiid and (3. Bruce, who werb respectively secretary apd assistant-secretary of the old Waterside WorkoTK , TJnJoii wliich held the field ijntil tho 'big strike at tho end of last year. Sft far as can bfe gathered nia application fov tho rcgistnjtioii of the new union has yet heeni made to the. Labour Department, but thero is .good, authority for stating that tlte application will bo ijiado. Although tho Ijidtistrfat, -Conciliatifln, and Afhitratibn Aot provides against a jnultiplieifcy of- nnious hi 4ho samo industry irt any- one district it is , Uioiight '.not -unlikely that tlift^icw 'wharf organisaion may sEduro rftgistration, Tho Act .directs that tho Registrar must grant registration.ltiiless-, lie. is satisfied •that th.ero fs nn ■'■existing'uijioii "to'' ■\v)iich "t'ho -np'j*M» cants can Giwvenieiitjj ibe'laug.'. If- in ■tho present ca.se it is asserted that the applrcaiite can show iliat tliev have peparate instance, occauso they are -.engaged in a special department qv (lepart/hients Of wharf work— it is not -unlikoly that their application maj' succeed.. In Aivy case, it would ho necessary for tho represcniaiives of the present union to -afivnnce snbstantial reasons in support of their elates if they - sought,to btock the registration of tho now union:. Recently*® Coal and Cargo Workers' Union was rSpstered a 5 ■Auckiawd, in addition 'to the Wharf I«ahonrej*' Union, but this case does not supply a-.parallel for tho claim of tha now unioii to tegis'tration was btfseil ilpon the faijfc ihflt its inertvbers Jvad hcen j-efus.od adniittaiico to tho casting Union. The decision of tho -Supreme Gmtrt yesterday that tho.executive of the. Wellington Wharf. L.abourorg' Union can o.pevato Upon its funds doubt I'aS its bearing upon tho formation of the now union.