DISPUTE UNSETTLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 170, 20 July 1936, Page 8

DISPUTE UNSETTLED.

NAPIER WATERFRONT. DANGER OF EXTENSION. (By Telegrnpli.—Press Association.) NAPIER, this day. The waterfront trouble continues at Napier. The dispute has been taken out of the hands' of the local employers by the headquarters in Wellington. It is feared that the trouble may extend, as the employers insist that the men must return to work as a preliminary to a settlement. The Federal vessel Kent is at anchor in the roadstead waiting to load frozen meat and general cargo for London and west coast ports of England. About £40,000 worth of produce for overseas markets is held up as the result of the trouble. The question whether the watersiders involved should receive sustenance from the Government while they are idle is being freely discussed 011 the waterfront as a result of a statement that one had received sustenance to the amount of £2 18/. A representative of a shipping company stated that he made inquiries from the Labour Department and lie found to his astonishment that sustenance was actually being paid for the past week. He said an important principle was involved in view of the Government's decision not to pay the Napier seamen when they were 011 strike a few weeks ago. When the matter was referred to Mr. A. E. Wood, a Labour Department inspector in Napier, lie refused to comment.