REFUSAL TO WORK

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 259, 29 July 1937, Page 15

REFUSAL TO WORK

Men Who Unload Fishing •Vessels By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, July 28. Claiming that nothing had been done to settle wage and overtime grievances which had been the subject of a dispute early in April, eight men permanently engaged to discharge cargo from the fishing vessels of Sanford, Limited, refused to work the trawler Thomas Carroll to-night. They stated that, they would not return to work until their grievances were settled. The dispute last April arose over the men’s dissatisfaction with their wages of 2/4 tin hour without overtime, or extra holiday pay. They then refused to work the trawler James Crosgrove, but decided to resume duties following a conference with their employers at which the conciliation coinmission er, Mr. It. E. Price, was present. Mr. Price advised this course until the matter could be discussed in Conciliation Council. The men said to-night that nothing had been done. They were still working at an hourly rate of 2/4 and were getting no overtime. Until they secured watersiders’ rates of pay and overtime after eight hours’ work they did not propose to resume duties.