WORK ON THE WATERFRONT.

Evening Star, Issue 16335, 30 January 1917, Page 8

WORK ON THE WATERFRONT.

(Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, 'January 50. Conditions on the waterfront are reported •to • be' becoming "more unsatisfactory. This morning men"did. not ’present - themselves for engagement at 7.45. ■ .It .is understood that:they, desirean:' alteration % the hours from 8 to 9 o’clock.. Men were afterwards picked up for boats which arrived, later. A rail-- was made lor.,'.labor to work the Home tbo gains from which were dismissed yesterday, but hone were obtained. ■The American steamer Edward Luckeubueb, • vii b a cargo, of kerosene, also experienced trouble, a dispute arising as,ln till' rale of pay. the men claiming that she was an oil steamer aml that they were entitled to 2s an h-mr instead of Is iOd. r l he employers disagie.ed. ; a in! - work wa - si -wiped, Late.r the employers , found that the vessel-.was an oil steamer mid'er the agreement, and a gang was engaged at the .terms demanded. - Imperial meat was going aboard one vessel at much below’.the usual irate, and the iv-wit. was that j.E W' hundred '‘caresses- were'iiot .'disposedof glo-day, and it wjU be impossdg.; ■/. discharge them from tbo .trucks Till tto-morrow.