WATERSIDE WORKERS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 63, 5 September 1911, Page 5

WATERSIDE WORKERS

By Telegraph—.Pre«s .Association. Auckland, Yesterday. At the Waterside Workers' Confer- ■.'.' eiiee there- was considerable discussion upon a. Lyttelton remit urging the Gov- ' ernment to legislate to compel all employeds to pay wages in, the employer'a time. The remit wa.s adopted. The conference also adopted Lyttelton remits to compel all vessels to carry a net the length and breadth of the ha,teh to avoid the danger of accident; also electric lights in the ship's hold, bunkers, or any part of ships where men are required to work by artificial light. The conference adopted the Timaru remit for the amendment of the Shipping and Seamen Act to prevent a member of a vessel's crew handling cargo on the wharves when shore labor was available. The conference passed a resolution, on the motion of Mr. Voioe (Lyttelton), that the conference condemn the action of the Government in allowing an industrial union the. right of election by ballot and the right of a close corporation, the said union being directly connected with the .Railway Depart- • ment, thereby debarring legitimate workers of the right to a fair bring. Toe conference adopted a remit from Lyttelton recommending the amendment et the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to allow industrial unions to take breaches of the Act or of an award before the court, and to amend section \\ to enable application to be made for a union member's name to be erased from the list sent to the registrar in :the previous January when his contributions are twelve months in arrear.