Auckland Watersiders To Resume Work Today

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28413, 21 October 1957, Page 12

Auckland Watersiders To Resume Work Today

(New Zealand Press Association)

AUCKLAND. October 20. Auckland waterfront workers will resume work at 8 a.m. tomorrow after a two-day strike. The strike arose out of the suspension on Thursday night of 33 cargo workers alleged to have been absent from the job without permission. The Port Conciliation Committee. comprising representatives of the port employers and the Cargo Workers’ Union, met yesterday. Mr T. G. Fielder, the independent chairman of the committee, said the main consideration ot the meeting was to get work resumed. The origin of the dispute would be discussed probably at a later meeting. Crew members unloaded 2230 bags of mail and passengers’ baggage from the Matson liner. Mariposa. at Captain Cook wharf yesterday. Several hundred tons of cargo, including a small shipment of Tahitian grapefruit and two large earthworking machines remained in the holds and will now be unloaded when the Mariposa returns from Sydney on October 29 The liner Ransitoto. which was to have sa’led for Lyttelton on Fridav. left at noon yesterday with 60 tons of Auckland cargo Cultural Co-operation.— Egypt signed today cultural co-operation agreements with the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria.— Cairo, October 19.

■ from London still to be discharged. She returns to Auckland on November 2. Coastal shipping at Auckland! has also been delayed by the. strike.