DELAY AT NEW PLYMOUTH

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28822, 17 February 1959, Page 14

DELAY AT NEW PLYMOUTH

Men Stop Work For Day (New Zeaiana Press Association; NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 16. New Plymouth watersiders stopped work this morning in protest at 28 workers being put on penalty on Saturday for refusing to work overtime on the 869-tori coaster Holmburn. A meeting of union, port employment, and conciliation officials later agreed that work would recommence tomorrow morning The penalty on the 28 men prevented them from obtaining work for three days. Before the stoppage today the four ships in port were worked for an hour and three-quarters. After a meeting of the New Plymouth Port Conciliation Committee, representatives of the Port Employers’ Association, and the executive of the Watersiders’ Union, the chairman of the conciliation committee (Mr P. E. Stainton) announced that "complete agreement had been reached,” and work would begin at 8 am. tomorrow.

As a result of the stoppage 400 tons of frozen meat, in addition to perishable dairy produce, was left alongside vessels, but it was not expected that any damage to them would occur;

Lyttelton Union’s Resolution A resolution protesting against the action of the employers in refusing waterside workers a wage increase at the recent conciliation proceedings in Wellington was carried at a meeting of the executive committee of the Lyttelton Waterside Workers’ Union yesterday. The committee met in the lunch hour and a copy of the resolution was later issued by the press committee.

The resolution reads: “The Lyttelton Waterside Workers’ Union publicly protests at the action of the New Zealand Port Employers’ Association in refusing, at con-, ciliation proceedings recently concluded, to acknowledge that the watersider has every right to a wage increase upon his basic hourly rate of pay, and trusts that the Waterfront Industry Tribunal will take a more liberal and realistic view at proceedings set down to take place on February

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