Shipwrights still out
Members of the Shipwrights’ Union employed preparing wooden cargo battening in ships’ holds at Lyttelton yesterday decided to continue their stoppage which began the previous morning. The secretary of the Lyttelton branch of the union (Mr P. O’Brien) said that the stoppage was the result of a wage dispute.
Shipwrights have an important part in cargo work, particularly loading, but so far work on only one vessel, the Port Adelaide, has been seriously restricted. On Monday afternoon, five gangs loading wool and general cargo aboard the Port Adelaide at Cashin Quay were forced to cease work as they needed the co-operation of shipwrights. Yesterday morning, however, limited wool loading was resumed, but without shipwrights.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32521, 3 February 1971, Page 14
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