WORKING OF CARGO DECLINED
CLAIM FOR DIRT MONEY (P.A.) AUCKLAND, March 1. Because a claim for an extra Is ah hour as dirt money for loading lampblack has not been met, 34 men erigaged as two gangs on the Union Company’s vessel Korowai at Auckland- have refused to work since Thursday afternoon. The lamp-black is a fairly large consignment for Lyttelton recently transhipped at Auckland from the English Prince. When the men asked for the extra rate of pay as dirt money the Waterfront Control Commission awarded them 8d extra an hqur based on the allowance given for the same cargo wnen it was discharged from the EngJOO, althougb work an the remainder of the sfiip was not affected. The commission advised the men that it would reopen the case as soon as they returned to work, but in spite of this Offer and. IP defiance of a request from the leaders of the Auckland Waterside Workers’ JJnion the men to?day reported at the ship, but did not resume work. It is reported that the ganss concerned will appear before the union executive in the morning.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24814, 2 March 1946, Page 6
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