WORK ON THE WHARVES
CONTROL BY WORKERS' UNIONS PKOPOSEU. By Telegraph-Press Association. Auckland, September 30. The Auckland watersiders held a slopwork meeting to-day to discuss a circit. lar, the main" 1 proposal o£ winch was tliat the unions and the federation 6hould take over the work at the various New Zealand ports now done ny stevedoring contractors. It. if proposed that the work should he carried out ou . tiie co-operative scheme on daily or pour- '> ly wages, with the alternative that tiia unions and the federation take chargo of work, engage labour, and appoint foremen, the companies to pay tlio wages and a percentage bonus on all wages, tlm surplus 'being used bb . unions and fclio federation decide. A i ballot is to he taken to decide whether either scheme shall be adopted, ino utmost secrecy was observed with regard to the proceedings at to-day s meeting.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1 October 1919, Page 6
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147WORK ON THE WHARVES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1 October 1919, Page 6
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