LABOUR MATTERS
WATERSIDERS' DISPUTE
PAY AND WORKING CONDITIONS,
(IT TELEGRAPH.—PRBSS ASSOCIATION.)
CHRISTCHURCH, 12th July. The hearing has commenced in the Arbitration Court of the dispute between the employers and the Waterside Workers' Unions *of Greymouth, Timaru, Westport, and Lyttelton. The employers, who had cited the unions in the dispute, asked for substantial reductions in the rates of pay and important variations in working conditions. The employers are asking for a Dominion award, and evidence has already been taken at Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin.
1 Captain Gill, wharfinger at Westport of the Union Company, urged the necessity for continuous work at that port, the abolition of step-work meetings, and a minimum payment as for three hours on night-shift instead of four. He also considered the employers should have the say as to whether the men should work or not in wet weather.
The- hearing was adjourned till tomorrow (Thursday).
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 11, 13 July 1922, Page 10
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148LABOUR MATTERS Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 11, 13 July 1922, Page 10
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