WATERFRONT IS TO BE RESOLVE

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5285, 23 December 1946, Page 4

WATERFRONT IS TO BE RESOLVE

(Pres's Assn.-

NEW DISCUSSIOl UNION PRESIDENT GUARANTEEDWAl

-By Telegraph—Cot

AUCKLAND, Lastj The waterfront disput not be allowed to rema indecision until after Christmas holidays. Thej dent of the national exec of the Watersiders' Unioi H. Barnes, and the vicedent, Mr A. Drennan, probably proceed to % ton on Monday for furthe cussions. Disclosing this to-day, Mr, said he was not prepared to c on the nature or extent of t posed discussions. If the siders' executive members dj Wellington," it is the interfl Auckland watersiders to holdl work meeting on Monday oioil -discuss problems before I Barnes and Drennan leave. I i The offer by Mr. Justice Oil arrangne at once for the Wai Commission to consider the A his pronouncement 011 theM guaranteed wages claini beffl orders are made giving- effe« was referred to to-day by Mr.M i He said he would point 1 the union agreed to have thi J recommitted at the commissij ing on December 4. ■ Again, the union was prefl have its representatives attfl commission meeting scheduB December 16, but on the I Friday it was postponed by tfl man pending- further developtfl the dispute. ■ "The people responsible ■ having the matter recommiB consideration of the commissiB the employers' representativ* Mr. Barnes. As far as he fl cerned, the union's offer toi , the commission's eonsideratiol guaranteed wage question stil i "The consistent f ailure oi fl ' mission to ^bserve elause oi ! 1940 order, which was the cll i-lating to payment o'f a gul ! wage, is the greatest breacl 1 dustrial law ever seen in « land," said Mr. Bames. I Asked what were the proS an eaply settlement of thel the National Secretary of thfl siders' ' Union, Mr. Hill, sl would tell. I "We feel that commissioM has not yet been lost," he sfl j asked wheth-er the Union wai ■ retention of commission conl | In answer to a question abl ! congestion and the resultal 1 sion of ships, he said thatl ; the complaints of po-rt congl j New Zealand had come throtl ; statements from Auckland! j port congestion is not uncol I normal times because of ti! ! quate and antiquated fac! i that port. Ships were an9 1 the stream at Auckland ■ i berths long before the water! stituted the 40-ho-ur week! land, with a vastly expaudin! ! tion in the district, was ! handle the increased tra! . facilities that were appar! signed in the borse and bug!