Waterside Workers Dismissed For Boycott Of Glassworks’ Cargo

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22889, 8 March 1949, Page 6

Waterside Workers Dismissed For Boycott Of Glassworks’ Cargo

(PA.) AUCKLAND, Mar. 8. The dismissal yesterday of 15 waterside workers who had refused to handle soda ash from No- 6 hatch of the steamer Northumberland lying at Prince’s Wharf was a new development in the industrial dispute which is extending in Auckland. The Auckland port committee of the Waterfront Industry Commission, facing its first really big problem since the Mountpark dispute, met yesterday to discuss the situation. It is understood that the dismissed watersiders automatically will go on penalty under the rules of the waterfront bureau. A stop-work meeting of 250 members of the Glassworkers’ Union at Penrose yesterday resolved to give financial and moral support to the carpenters in the present dispute. The meeting, which was held at the works of the New Zealand Glass Manufacturing Company Proprietary, Limited, lasted two hours and a quarter. It was addressed by the secretaries of the glassworkers, carpenters and drivers’ unions. The Glassworkers’ Union secretary stated that the workers had agreed unanimously to abide by the recommendations of the national council of the Federation of Labour and the Auckland Trades Council. The glassworks are turning out milk bottles, motor oil bottles, aerated water botltes and essence vials.

The works manager said yesterday that there was sufficient oil to keep the furnaces going for three days.