THE WELLINGTON WATERFRONT

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22662, 17 March 1939, Page 10

THE WELLINGTON WATERFRONT

GO-SLOW POLICY ADOPTED DELAY IN WORKING YESTERDAY EMPLOYERS’ COMPLAINT (PBISS ASSOCIA.TIOW TELIGEAM.) WELLINGTON, March 16. ‘There was definitely a go-slow movement on the Wellington wharves to-day,” said Mr W. H. G. Bennett, general secretary of the Waterside Employers’ Association, to-night, when asked to confirm a rumour that waterside workers were not working as fast as usual this afternoon. “Officials of the Waterside Workers’ Union denied any knowledge of the go-slow policy, but there definitely was one,” he said. It was difficult to give the correct reason for the policy, as the employers had heard only rumours. One was that the men were dissatisfied with the delay in getting, their new award. Another was that they were dissatisfied with the result of the conference with the Minister for Labour last week. The men worked normally in the morning, and it was not till 1.30 p.m. that a slowing-down in the work was noticed. The German steamer Cassel would have completed loading by 5 p.m. had it not been for the delay, but the work on her was not finished till late to-night. The loading of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Piako and the Blue Star Line steamer Doric Star also proceeded slowly this afternoon and to-night, as did the discharging of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s motor-liner Rangitata.