LABOUR WORLD.

Grey River Argus, 13 December 1928, Page 8

LABOUR WORLD.

WATERSIDE DISPUTE. COASTAL SHIP HELD Ut>. GISBORNE, December 11. I No labour was offering yesterday or I to-day for the discharge of the scow jHuanui’s cargo of benzine from Wellington. The trouble is due to the re [gular crew leaving the ship at Wellingr ton, where an effort to trad© induced ' the skipper to assent to award conditions; though the Huanui’s owners are not cited aa parties to the award, du° to the fact of the scow not being independent of sail. The Secretary of the Watersiders’ Union states that he knows nothing •-uHcerning the trouble, nor had any communication from the New Zealand Federation concerning the scow. The owners hold, on the other hand, that the men object to unload th© ship, charging the owners with employing free labour. . The substitute crew arc non-unionists, but practised sailormen, and cannot b© called free labour, as the vessel is not under the award, though the crew are paid at award rates. FREE LABOUR. GISBORNE, December 12. The trouble on the schooner Huanui continues. Not only is the cargo being discharged by free labour, but free carriers ar6 engaged in carting it away. Officials of the Watersiders’ and Carriers’ Unions proclaim ignorance of the dispute. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION. SYDNEY, December 12. The second year’s operation of the Workers’ Compensation Act in New South Wales involved payments of approximately two millions sterling, on account of injuries to sixty-one thousand workers. WATERSIDERS ’ CONFERENCE WITH SHIP OWNERS. MELBOURNE, December 12. The Waterside Workers’ Federation has. at last, induced the shipowners to meet it in conference, to discuss the employment of Federation members on the waterfront. The shipowners agreed to meet the Federation’s representatives on Tuesday. The discussion will be confined to this one problem. 250 WORKERS DISMISSED. FROM COCKATOO DOCKYARD. SYDNEY., December 12. Following the completion of the aircraft carrier, Albatross, 250 employees of Cockatoo Dockyard received notice of dismissal. The Chairman of Directors stated that prospects of securing new contracts were not bright on account of trade depression.