OIL STEAMER'S CARGO
LABOUR TROUBLE.
The British Imperial Oil Company's steamer Physa, now berthed at the Glasgow Wharf, is experiencing difficulty in connection with the discharge of her cargo of case-oil. Waterside workers do. not care for oil cargoes, as they work only un. til 4 p.m., to comply with Customs requirements, and the men can make at most 9s lid a. day, working for seven hours at Is sd.
At Dunedin, Lj'ttelton. and Auckland, they sa.y, a daily rate of 12s is allowed. Occasionally the work is interfered with by rain, and sometimes the. gangs have to stop to enable the carters to keep pace with the accumulations on the wharf. Yesterday, instead of three gangs of eight men each, Gannaway and Co. could obtain only one at the rate of Is 5d an hour. Other men, it was stated, would not work for less than 2s an hour; but this was not conceded. At 2 p.m., the g-ang engaged, which had worked for only two hours owing to rain, decided to discontinue, as the other watersiders had refused to work for less than 2s an hour: Up to the time of writing no settlement o£ the question has been arrived at.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 110, 5 November 1915, Page 8
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203OIL STEAMER'S CARGO Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 110, 5 November 1915, Page 8
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