DELAY IN ARRIVAL OF ANDES

Dominion, Volume 39, Issue 28, 27 October 1945, Page 8

DELAY IN ARRIVAL OF ANDES

Responsibility Denied By

Watersiders

Statements made by servicemen who returned on the Andes alleging that the waterside workers were partly responsible for the delay in the vessel’s arrival were replied to yesterday by Mr. T. Hui, secretary of the New Zealand n aterside Workers’ Union, Mr. E. A. Napier, secretary of the Wellington Waterside Workers’ Union, and Sir. R. O Donnell, president of the ’Wellington union, in .i joint statement. “The waterside workers are employed when required and in this instance no requisition of labour to work the Auues was received by the Labour Bureau in Lyttelton,” said the statement. buuday labour wa s engaged to take the lines on a phosphate vessel in Further, while night shift and Sunday work has been discontinued, troop ships and hospital ships are exempt from this order, and every troopship that has arrived in Wellington has been worked by the watersiders. both night shifts and Sundays if required. M ith regard .0 the statement that ’wharfies must haie their holidays irrespective of the interests ot the men who have been fighting for them, the individual who made that statement is probably unaware that on all troopships (bat‘disembark New Zealand members of the Waterside Workers Unibn have walked down the gangways. He may also he unaware th.R with a menibjrship of 7(M><> there are no less than 1000 returned soldiers from this war in th« union. -