WATERFRONT TROUBLES
.BOUND-TABLE CONFERENCE ON MOSQUITO FLEET DISPUTE. . As neither party, in tho local shipping trouble will yield, the only hope and probable means of a .settlement is a discussion of the questions in dispute at a. round-table conference, presided over by the "Minister of Marine (the Hon. CI. W. Bussell).' A meeting of rnomgers of the Seamen's Union was" held yesterday, but of the fifty odd men present only a Few of them were affected by the dispute, the majority having found, employment on larger vessels or in other occupations. The meeting unanimously its decision; agreeing to meet the employers at a. round-table conference.
.The work of discharging' the'cargo from one of the BUc'kbiill coal ste/iiuore was begun vwterdsir." frie vi-ssfll arrived 'he.ro about three weeks ago, and the local ■ workers declined to.work her, and finally, on Thursday, negotiations between the owners and tho workers resulted in the removal of the source of the trouble. On completion of the discharge of her cargo to-day, the .vessel.will sail for Lyttelton and Dunedin, and will then trade' on the New Zealand const for an indefinite time. Another vessel which needed bunker coal was worked also, and at. present the only dispute on fche waterfront is that of the seamen.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 22, 20 October 1917, Page 9
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