VESSEL HELD UP

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 11

VESSEL HELD UP

Non-unionists Object to Some of Men Engaged By Telegraph—Frees Association. Auckland, September 14. .The small motor-ship Port Whangarei was idle nearly all of to-day owing to the waterside workers unloading the vessel refusing to continue because they objected to four of the men employed. The Port Whangarel arrived from southern ports on Sunday with a full cargo. At 8 o’clock four gangs, totalling over 60 men, were engaged to unload the vessel. On account of the number of overseas vessels in port no members of the Waterside Workers’ Union were available, and in consequence all non-union labour had to be engaged. Discharging operations continued until 10.30 a.m., when nearly all the men on board came ashore and refused to continue working. When the foreman stevedore asked them why they had stopped work they stated that they objected to four of the men employed. No attempt was made by the agents to engage other labour in place of the men who refused to work and unloading operations were suspended for the remainder of the day.