SHIPPING DELAYED.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20273, 26 June 1931, Page 10

SHIPPING DELAYED.

WATERSJDERS REFUSE TO WORK OVERTIME. With the object, it 10 said, of Inducing the employers to restora the 10 per cent, cut, the Lyttelton watersiders yesterday declined to work overtime. On each of the ships in port, with the exception of the Port Huon, the men were told at 5 p.m. to return at 6 p.m. In every instance they declined, and no overtime waa worked. The departure of several vessels wad delayed until to-day. Although it was known in the port early in the afternoon that the . men would not accept overtime, the shipping companies received no official notification until the men themselves informed the K various foremen at 5 o'clock. The watersiders will now do thie morning, at ordinary rates, the work for which they would have received overtime rates last night. The c|elay is a serious matter to the Unjijn Company's Wainui, which is in poit at present. The Wainui is a time-table steamer, carrying cargo on the same run as the passenger steamer Maheno did formerly. She had already lost a day through the stormy weather and the, postponement of her departure until to-day will make her two days late. She has cargo aboard for transhipment to the Niagara at Auckland, but unless she can be dispatched early to-day she may miss the connexion. Earlier in the day a number of watersiders declined to accept engagement to work the Karepo during. toe meal hour from noon till 1 p.m.