DIRT MONEY CLAIMED
SHIP’S LOADING DELAYED WI-lAKF DISPUTE AT AUCKLAND (P.A.) AUCKLAND, March 1. Because a claim for an extra 1/- an hour as dirt money for loading lampblack has not been met, 34 men engaged as two gangs on the Union Company’s vessel Korowai at Auckland have refused to work since' Thursday afternoon. The lamp-black is a fairly large consignment for Lyttelton recently transhipped at Auckland from the English Prince. When the men asked for the extra rate of pay as dirt money the Waterfront Control Commission awarded them 8d extra an hour based on the allowance given- for the same cargo when it was discharged from tire English Prince. The gafigs then left the job, although work on the remainder of the ship was not affected. The commission advised the men that it would reopen the case as soon as they returned to work, but in spite of this offer and in defiance of a request from the leaders of the Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union the men to-day reported at the ship, but did not resume work, z
It is reported that the gangs concerned will appear before the union executive in the morning,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 March 1946, Page 2
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