LOADING DISPUTE
TIROA AT GISBORNE
DEMANDS BY WAtERSIDERS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
GISBORNE, 28th November
The coastal steamer, Tiroa, loading sleepers for. Auckland was the subject of a dispute to-day, the watersiders demanding an increase in the number of men working in the holds and also on the railway trucks on tho wharf.
The owners of the vessel agreed to increase the gang in the hold, but refused a concession as to the trucks, suggesting that the A work should proceed and.the matter be referred to the local Disputes Committee.' The union is said to have refused this suggestion, and to have taken all the men off the fore-hold. A small gang is still working the after-hold, but -when. they finish the vessel will be helQ up pending the issue of the dispute over the fore-hold. GISBORNE, This Day. There is no new development concerning the loading of the steamer Tiroa. . The Waterside Workers' Union maintains its. attitude in regard to the size of.the gang required to handle railway sleepers, and the owners of the-, vessel decline to- make any further concession than was made yesterday.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 130, 29 November 1932, Page 8
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185LOADING DISPUTE Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 130, 29 November 1932, Page 8
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