WATERSIDERS' TROUBLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2, 23 April 1914, Page 2

WATERSIDERS' TROUBLES.

THE RIVAL UNIONS'. rPisn Press Association.] Wellington, April 22. The old Waterside Workers’ Union, which went ou strike, has applied for registration under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act on the ground that its members canned conveniently belong to the Wharf Laborers’ Union, ft alleges that the executive works only in the interests o' 450 members -as against 1300 «]-•> [joined after the strike, holds .•:> 1 ! |iugs for its own faction onh am! h, t , refused to give effect to resole* tom[passed the legally constituted - dugs of the union. In sot 1 i g fm Ireasons why an additional union should ! iiot he registered the executive of tin[new. union denies sectional favoritism and points out that the meetings at [which resolutions were passed were illegal as they were for genuine members only, whereas a number of men obtained admittance by means of membership hooks obtained by means oi bogus clearances from other unions, intended to defraud the executive out of fifty entrance fees, and further that (he hooks were pushed under tin* door to non-members outside.