HANDLING PHOSPHATE
EXTENSION OF THE DISPUTE. (P.A.) DUNEDIN, Jan. 12. Army personnel were engaged today in unloading phosphate from a ship berthed at Ravensbourne wharf. The waterside workers were to have undertaken the discharge of the cargo yesterday, but they refused to do so until the dispute between the fertiliser works employees and their employers was settled. A decision was given, in Wellington in December by the Disputes Committee fixing an extra rate of 3d an hour for unloading certain classes of phosphate, but this apparently does not cover Makatea phosphate, the type over which the present dispute lias arisen. It is understood that a meeting of the employees’ union was held tonight to discuss the position, and that it was decided not to resume work. A major development to-day was that men engaged in the manufacture and dispatch of fertiliser at Kempthorne Prosser’s works at Burnside refused to start work this morning in sympathy with the attitude of the Ravensbourne men.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 79, 13 January 1945, Page 5
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