WATERFRONT DISPUTE
WORKERS DEMAND 4/6 AN HOUR ( (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 1. The waterfront, dispute over the unloading of a cargo of guano at Wellington was still unsettled to-day. The company' handling the cargo is not prepared to pay the rate of 4s 6d an hour claimed by the men, who did not turn-to at 8 a.m. to-day. It was then raining. An official of the company said that the men went away at 10 a.m. It was fine later in the day, and the ship could have been worked. However, it was expected that the men would turnto to-morrow morning.
If the men persist in their refusal, they will be liable to be penalised by the Waterfront Control Commission, which has power to suspend them from all work on the waterfront.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 249, 2 August 1941, Page 2
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