DISPUTE ABOUT GANGWAY
Auckland Waterfront (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February ll. : The services of 100 waterside workers were. dispensed with when they refused to board a Union Company ship yesterday afternoon. The men declared that the gangway from the wharf to the ship was unsafe and that to use it would involve risk. The waterfront controller, Captain C. V. Standich, said today that no reasonable grounds could be found for considering the gangway unsafe. Mr. H. Barnes, presideqt of the Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union, said it had been raining all night and the wharf was wet and slippery. When the men went to board the ship they found that the gangway was not rigged in accordance with the harbour regulations, and was in a dangerous condition. There was a space of about three feet between the wharf and the gangway over which the men were supposed to jump. Mr. Barnes declared the time was long overdue for an inquiry into the activities of the 'Waterfront Control. Commission, for the matter iu dispute could have been adjusted in a few minutes.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 117, 12 February 1944, Page 8
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