WATERSIDE TROUBLE THREATENED
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Bureau System Demanded Forthwith COMPANIES' VIEWS
(By Telegrapb-
WELLINGTON. Last Night. Tliere is a possibility of trouble on the Wellington waterfront next week. It is stated that at a stop-work meeting, members of the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union on Wednesday, a resolution was passed .that unless the bureau system of engaging and employ ing waterside labour was put into operation forthwith, union members would decline to_ respond to calls from next Wednesday "morning. It is understood the decision will not affect ships already working with waterside labour engaged prior to that ■day but as the ships finish on or after ■Wednesday the men will be bound not to accept further calls. • ' The organisation of the waterside labour bureau was completed at Wellington and Auckland some weeks ago and the system was to.have. been inaugurated last month. •• The shipping companies, it is stated, h^ve declined to put the system into opfliation until the carrying on of work in a proper and workmanlike manner is guaranteed • by the union. It is. understood the position was discussed at a meeting of representatives of shipping companies to-day and representations made to tihe Government. , . ,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 3
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194WATERSIDE TROUBLE THREATENED Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 3
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