CABINET TO CONFER WITH COUNCIL

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5303, 16 January 1947, Page 5

CABINET TO CONFER WITH COUNCIL

( Press Assn.-

waterfront issues LENGTHY SESSION wtffl 'FEDERATION )

—By Telegraph — Copyriaht.)

WELLINGTON, Last Night. Arrangements were prac- • tically complete to-night for Cabinet to confer with the National Council of the Waterside Workers'. Union to-mor-row morning. This will be the first time the union leaders have met any member of Parliament since December - 23, when the national executive conferred with the Minister of Labour, Mr. A. ' McLagan. The union's national council continud'd its meeting to-day. The executive of the Federation oi Labour also met Cabinet in -a sixhour session, during which the waterfront dispute was one of the Subjects under discussion. No party to the dispute had any statement to make on developments. Waterside officials continued to address meetings of other unions in an endeavour to en-'-'ist support. The chairman of the Otahuhu branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Mr. L. Reid, stated that the report of the meetings of railwaynien did not accurately describe those meetings. The" first was a mass meeting qddressed by Mr. A. Drennan, national vicenresident of the Waterside Workers* Union, and Mr. J. Mitckell, a member of the national council, at the Otahuhu wcrkshops, on Monday. The second was a meeting of the Otahuhu branch of the A.S.R.S., and was held at Newmarket on Monday night. Mr. Reid said that he w'as chairman of both meetings. At the mass meeting, Mr. Drennan gave a brief outline of the issues involved in the waterfront dispute. He had only 20 minutes at his disposal, and at the completion of his address, he answered one question.