MEN SUSPENDED
INCIDENT ON JOB
AN EMPLOYMENT DISPUTE
A difference of opinion regarding the safety of lifting gear was ventilated at a sitting of the Auckland Industrial Manpower Committee this morning when Joseph Thomas Forbes and William Sutherland Munro, carpenters, appealed against their employer, Mr. A. J. Good, being granted permission by the manpower officer to terminate their employment.
Wallace George Aldridge said that on October 13 he gave Forbes and Munro a job lifting beams. Later in the morning they came into wit-, ness' office and said they resented having been spoken to by the leading hand in regard to the manner in which they had left the lifting gear. They refused to continue on the work and were suspended.
Forbes said he had served many years at sea and maintained that the gear was safe. He did not refuse duty, but the foreman did not give him a chance to explain the position. Munro also stated that he had not refused to work.
The committee reserved its decision.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 271, 15 November 1943, Page 4
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