MEN PENALISED

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 13

MEN PENALISED

Refusal To Work In Meal Hour PORT CAMPBELL TROUBLE The waterside workers who on Tuesday evening declined to load the Port Campbell at the King’s Wharf during their meal hour were penalised after their case had been discussed by the control board of the Waterside Lahour Bureau yesterday morning. They were “stood down” from obtaining work fo r two days. When the Port Campbell was loading chilled beef on Tuesday evening, the eve of the wharf holiday, the men were asked to carry on loading through their meal hour, in accordance with the provisions of the award. They declined to do so, and were dismissed. As the loading of the beef was. a matter of urgency, the crew were called on co load, whereupon the remainder of the wffterslders working on the Port Campbell went ashore. The crew, working all night, finished the loading themselves. The Port Campbell is now loading at Napier, and is due back on Wednesday to complete. VESSEL WORKED AT NAPIER No Echo Of Wellington Dispute Dominion Special Service. Napier, January 27. When the overseas steamer Port Campbell arrived at Napier to-day to load frozen meat, wool, butter and general cargo for London there were some fears that the vessel might, not be worked owing to the dispute regarding loading at Wellington, which resulted in the vessel's crew handling a portion of the chilled beef cargo. The fears, however, were groundless, and the vessel was worked according to schedule. “The Wellington dispute does not concern us,” said the secretary of the Napier Watersiders’ Union,,*Mr. A. P. Sheehan. “We have nothing" to do with Wellington’s troubles at all.”