Patea Waterside Trouble
Tn a general commentary on Mr. Corrigan’s handling of the waterside dispute at Patea, J. Black says the fact that the waterside workers were there, offering to work under the employers’ new proposals, gave Mr. Corrigan no justification for asking the storemen to do the work, and incidentally was a justification for them declining. Mr. Black also quotes a statement he received from a watersider, as to the wages he received in the last seventeen months, which is as follows:—From April 1, 1931 to March 31, 1932, an average of iJ/o/* per week, and from April 1 last to Julj 31, £l/8/8 per week only. From then onwards to date his earnings have not averaged £1 per week. It will therefore be seen, says Mr. Black, that. Mr. Corrigan has had cheap labour in spite of the fact that he has had.to pay overtime rates occasionally.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 11
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149Patea Waterside Trouble Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 11
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