WATERSIDERS AND THEIR LANGUAGE
“SOME NOT TOO PARTICULAR” ‘‘Alost of the men are quite all right, but some of them are not too particular in the choice of their language,” stated the traffic manager in recommending to the Auckland Harbour Board yesterday afternoon that some arrangement be entered into with shipping companies so that waterside workers could be engaged outside the wharf gates. He stated that the trouble arose through the fact that the non-union workers were not allowed to use the Waterside Union workers’ waiting room, and as a result they congregated inside the Central Wharf gates. The entrance was used considerably by ships’ passengers, and it was not desirable that large numbers of men should gather at that point. The chairman, Air. H. R. Mackcnzie, said that the union was a very close corporation, its members being limited to 1,300. When there was a dirty ship the non-unionists got a job until such time as the work improved. “Then the non-unionists were put off,” said the chairman. Air. T. Bloodworth: The number is fixed by the Arbitration Court. The shed in question was rented by the Waterside Workers’ Union. Mr. Mackenzie: Only £1 a year. Mr. Bloodworth: That makes no difference. The recommendation was referred to the Works Committee for a report.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 125, 17 August 1927, Page 16
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