MOVE TO DEREGISTER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1939, Page 5

MOVE TO DEREGISTER

BY FERTILISER WORKERS’ UNION MOTION TO BE CONSIDERED TOMORROW. PROPOSAL TO EMPLOYERS. ißy Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 17. Chemical manure workers, now on strike at the works at Otahuhu. Te Papapa and Westfield, are to meet on Wednesday to consider a motion to make an immediate application to cancel the registration of their union under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. It is expected that deregistration of the union under the Act will be adopted by the workers. In that event it will involve the first break away by a union from the principle of settlement of industrial disputes through the Court of Arbitration since the advent of the Labour Government.

The intended action by the union was communicated to representatives of the owners this afternoon by the disputes committee of the Auckland Council of the Federation of Labour at a conference, presided over by Mr Price, conciliation commissioner.

A request was made by the union to the employers, that they should endeavour to effect an early settlement of the dispute by consenting to meet the union without delay on the question of an agreement under the Labour Disputes Investigation Act, notwithstanding that deregistration under the Arbitration Act will take some time to accomplish. The employers’ representative undertook to get in touch with the directors of the companies concerned on the question .on Wednesday so that their attitude will be defined, provided the resolution mentioned is adopted by the workers.