WHARF LABOURERS' AGREEMENT
0 — MEN ADVISED TO KEEP IT. . ■ A few days ago, >as o result rf some trouble on one of the vessels berthed at one of the Wellington wharves the men working cargo on tho vessel knocked off. This matter was referred to at last night's ineetinc of the Wellington • Wharf Labourers' Union. The' president of the union (Mr. F. Curtice) expressed the opinion that the men should not have acted as they did without consulting .the officers of the union. ' . , A voice: Rot! The president: I have heard a man say "Eot." Let me tell him that every man who came out of the hatch is liable to a £10 fine now—from his wages orfrom his effects. The agreement has to be kept for two years, whether the man who said "Eot" likes it or not. . . . You are fighting now to retain, the finest' agreemqnt, or near it, in the Southern Hemisphere, and, if bickering can't be stopped, good-bye your agree-' ment, good-bye your conditions, good- ; byo your union. The secretary of the union (Mr. G. Bruce) also advised the men to keep the agreement. ■■ The president added that ho had been given to understand that bickering was going to be put down through the foremen dismissing those who practised it.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2334, 16 December 1914, Page 6
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214WHARF LABOURERS' AGREEMENT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2334, 16 December 1914, Page 6
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