AUCKLAND WATER FRONT
DEPUTATION TO MR. MASSEY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, June 2.
A deputation waited upon the Prime Minister this morning to protest against the existing conditions on the Auckland waterfront, whereby it is alleged that 200 men eligible for membership are shut out from the Waterside Workers' Union. Speakers stated that at present the Waterside Workers' Union was a closp corporation. Men who had all their lives been employed as wharf labourers were shut out from ordinary occupation aud many were almost starving. ■ Tlie Prime Minister offered to do what he (oulcl personally in the case of the men, whose individual position had been cited and promised to nave inquiry made into the main question raised as soon as he got back to Wellington.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2478, 3 June 1915, Page 8
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126AUCKLAND WATER FRONT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2478, 3 June 1915, Page 8
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