RUMOUR DENIED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1940, 24 December 1913, Page 6

RUMOUR DENIED.

ALLOTMENT OF WORK AT WHARF,

A rumour was current yesterday to tho effect that certain waterside workers who stood by tlio employers during the period of tho strike had been passed over yesterday when tho steamer Ripple required men for loading operations. Inquiries mndo at tho ofßco Gf tho vessel's agents and on. tins wharf went to show that this was not correct. When labour was being engaged for tho steamer there were only availablo somo fourteen men who could claim preference, and these were aH given work. Tho labour foreman still had half-a-dozen vacancies, however, and consequently gave work to 6omo of tho old watersidors, who had returned to tho wharf. \Subsequently a batch 01 Arbitratioiiisls finished work oil another vessel, and were for tho time being without jobs, while the old watersiders referred to were of course still working 011 the Hippie. This apparently gav® riso to, tho rumour that certain* men, who had a right to claim profereneo, were being "turned down" Sy the employers.