WATERSIDE LABOUR
;24 HOURS’ SHIFTS ADVOCATED. ' | [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] I WELLINGTON, December 6. Concern at the effect upon New Zealand shipping of the British losses bejing reported from week to week, and ■the need for facilitating to the utmost 1 extent the loading and unloading of overseas vessels, was emphasi o at a .meeting of the Dominion E&aowe of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. It was urged that work should not cease on overseas ships, from the moment they arrived in port till the last cargo had been put on board, and it was considered that, if possible, shift work should enable work to continue for the whole 24 hours of the day. The following resolution was carried: “That the executive requests that a lull public statement be made concerning the rate of loading and unloading cargo at New Zealand main ports, compared with that from five to 10 years ago, and also regarding the terms of pay and conditions relating to employment on the waterfront.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1940, Page 5
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