WHARF DISPUTES AT AUCKLAND

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25638, 29 October 1948, Page 6

WHARF DISPUTES AT AUCKLAND

THREE SHIPS AFFECTED AUCKLAND, October 28. After about a month of comparative industrial . peace on the Auckland waterfront, several disputes broke out to-day. The employers alleged that a “go slow” policy has been adopted by waterside workers discharging bitumen from the British freighter Derrycunihy after , the dismissal of a man on Wednesday night for reported absence from the job. Because it was held that about 60 non-union workers had been employed after the set engagement hour of 10 a.m., the Union Steam Ship Company’s vessel Korowai, which arrived m the morning from the Islands, had only two and a half gangs instead of the required six to discharge her cargo of fruit, including 18,000 cases of bananas, this afternoon and to-night. Because of her fruit cargo the Korowai was given a priority berth at the wharf. Men engaged in loading the Gisborne sheep farmers’ motor-vessel Margaret W. did »not work an evening shift. This is believed to be a protest against the action of the employers in aecid-, ing not to work overtime on Wednesday evening.