LOADING OF A SHIP. HALTED

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 45, 17 November 1941, Page 8

LOADING OF A SHIP. HALTED

Waterfront Dispute In Auckland

COMPLAINT BY THE MEN

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 16.

The working of a ship was halted on Saturday night following a dispute between the stevedores aud the waterside workers’ union. The men stopped work at five o’clock, the regular hour when no call for late labour has been made, and the loading was'continued by non-unionists and the shipping company’s foremen till 7.20, when the nonunionists also stopped. The dispute was confined to one vessel, five other-' ships being worked both on Saturday and today. "Certain fjp- the working of ships outside ordinary hours were laid down on a national basis aud agreed to by the shipping companies and the waterside workers,” said the Waterfront Controller. Captain Stanich. “Those conditions were not carried out' and uuder the terms of the agreement the men could not be called on to work.” The president of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Waterside Workers Union, Mr. Barnes, said the union was not given any indication that the men would, be needed on Saturday night and no application was made to the Waterfront Commission before 10 o’clock that day. Tne men consequently refused to work after 5 p.m. The men had agreed to weekend work aud all-night work, subject to certain conditions, and in this case when the conditions were not observed by the stevedores the work was refused. The r.ou-uuionists had stopped work when they learned of the position.