WATERFRONT DISPUTE
Commission Meeting On Monday Postponed AUCKLAND, last night. Pending further developments' in th'e waterfront dispute, the meeting cf the Waterfront Industry Commission, which was to have been held in Wellington 011 Monday, has been postponed. This decision was made by the chairman, Mr. Justice Ongley, aecording to advice received to-day by ,the Auckland Waterside Workers' Union. The meeting would have brought representatives of the employers and the union together in a further attempt to reach agreement on the dispute, and to secure a resumption of normal ordinarv and overtime work of watersiders at New Zealand ports. At the previous meeting of the commission last week a deadlock was reaehed. Commenting upon -the postponement of next Monday's meeting, Mr. H. Barnes, president of the exeeutive of the Waterside Workers' Union, and a workers' representative on the commission, said in Auckland to-day that it would appear that the employers were not anxious to meet the union. "If that is the case," Mr. Barnes aSded, "I do not thiink that they will find that the union is very anxious to meet them, either."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5278, 14 December 1946, Page 5
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182WATERFRONT DISPUTE Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5278, 14 December 1946, Page 5
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