NON-UNIONISTS ON WHARVES

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23971, 11 June 1943, Page 3

NON-UNIONISTS ON WHARVES

DIRECTION TO OTHER WORK APPEALS FAIL AT ' AUCKLAND AUCKLAND, June 10. ‘‘A non-unionist’s work on the wharf is not constant, but the work to which these men have been directed is,” said the chairman of the Auckland Manpower (Industrial) Committee, Mr J. O. Liddell, when non-union watersiders appealed against being directed from the wharves to other industries. Stating that he had worked on the wharves for years, Mr Alfred C. Dimmock, who had been directed to the Atlantic Oil Company, expressed the opinion that he should stay on the waterfront. He had applied to the manpower office for a permanent pass to allow him to carry on. He did not see why young men who were capable of doing any class of work should get passes entilting them to stay on the wharves when he and an elderly man had to leave. Mr Liddell said that the mere fact that a man had been given a permanent wharf pass did not necessarily mean that he would stay there. If circumstances dictated, the Manpower Officer might decide to transfer the holder of a permanent pass at any time. Wharf work had not been declared essential; but the industries to which the men had been directed had a close bearing on the war effort. Representing the Manpower Officer, Mr R. Lydford said that the appellant, who was 59 years old, was a plasterer's labourer before ho worked on the wharf. His job at the Atlantic Oil Company, which was greatly in need of men, would be filling oil drums. The appeal was dismissed. Ngatamariki Ngatama, a Rarotongan, appealed against his transfer from the wharf to the Hume Pipe Company, Ltd. He said he was 39, and had applied for a permanent wharf pass. Mr Lydford said that for five years up to 1942, the appellant worked as a labourer for the Land and Survey Department. In the last six weeks his earnings on the wharf were £35 9s 3d. The appeal was dismissed.

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