WATERFRONT DISPUTE

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 18

WATERFRONT DISPUTE

REFUSAL TO WORK SHIP. MEN RETURN TO HOMES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) C'HRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Because seamen were engaged yesterday to work the winches on the Taupata, watersiders, contending that the | work is the province of shore hands, ; refused to work the vessel. The men i held a meeting at Lvttelton this morning and affirmed their refusal to work the ship under existing circumstances. The employers refused to meet the men on this point, and the result was that the men acted on a threat to return to their homes. About 21 men were engaged on the Taupata. The dispute has now been referred to the Employers' Shipping Association in Wellington and to the owners of the vessel at Nelson. While the deadlock lasts the ship will be idle. The Waimarino, which is indirectly affected by the dispute, has also been delayed. Only one gang could be obtained to work the vessel this morning. It is officially reported that nonunion labour was engaged by the Railway Department to work the Port Whangarei on its arrival from Wellington, this arrangemeat being made before the call was made for railway labour for the Waimarino.