WAGES DISPUTE.
TRAWLER CREWS REFUSE DUTY. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 18. While the Lyttelton trawler crews employed by P. Feron and Son have refused duty pending a satisfactory settlement of a dispute which arose on Sunday, one of the trawlers, the Phyllis, left Lyttelton at a late hour on Monday night with a scratch crew recruited! from Christchurch, and had not reported back at her base at midnight. Meanwhile the permanent members of the Phyllis’s crew are awaiting their personal gear and belongings which they state weire left aboard the vessel on Sunday. The grounds of the dispute were requests made by the crews for the restoration of the 1931 wages scale in conformity with the order recently enacted by Parliament. The manager of the employing company, Mr E. J. Newman, refused the request on the ground that no award existed in 1931 for the employees or trawling companies, and the legislation therefore did l not apply to the crews of the Phyllis and Muriel.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 263, 19 August 1936, Page 3
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