THE MOUNTPARK DISPUTE
WORK RESUMED AT AUCKLAND
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, July 16. Work was resumed to-day on the Auckland waterfront. All ships berthed were working normally, except the wheat freighter Mountpark, which is still idle, and the sugar ship Broompark, which was working two holds only. The Mountpark and the other holds of the Broompark will remain idle until a tribunal is appointed to settle the dispute and decide how the hatches will be lifted. Before work started this morning the watersiders attended a stop-work meeting which lasted 10 minutes. It was to give official instruction for the resumption. Between 1000 and 1100 men were idle before Xhe settlement yesterday. Requisitions for labour to-day did not absorb all the available labour and a few men returned home. The Mountpark will be removed tomorrow after eight weeks of idleness at the export wharf—to set the berth free. The national president of the Watersiders’ Union (Mr H. E. Barnes) is returning to Auckland this afternoon from Wellington.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25549, 17 July 1948, Page 8
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