NORMAL WORK ON AUCKLAND WHARVES

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1948, Page 3

NORMAL WORK ON AUCKLAND WHARVES

(PA.) AUCKLAND, August 16. After the announcement today of the decision of the tribunal investigating the Mountpark and Broompark hatch disputes normal waterfront work will be resumed at Auckland tomorrow The executive of the Auckland branch of the Waterside Workers’ Union met this afternoon and the tribunal’s decision will be given to unionists at a special stopwork meeting in the morning. Asked if work would then resume normally on the Broompark at Chelsea, a union official said that the union, as one of the parties of the dispute. had agreed to accept and abide by the terms of the decision. ‘The national and Auckland president of the union (Mr H. Barnes), who conducted the union’s case at the inquiry, is on holiday. The Mountpark, which still has 19 000 bags of Australian wheat to land, is not likely to obtain a berth before Thursday. The steamer has been at Auckland since May 9. Sixty-eight men for the ship and 48 for the wharf store have been requisitioned for the Broompark tomorrow. The Broompark has 6000 tons of sugar for discharge.