SHIPPING DISPUTES.
INTERRUPTIONS AT LYTTELTON. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 18. Waterfront disputes continue _at Lyttelton, causing an unsettled feeling regarding the working of ships. Overtime was refused last evening when the men were asked to work the Waimarino and the Waikouaiti. Work was resumed this morning, hut a fresh hitch occurred when they discovered that odd sacks of potatoes being shipped by the Waimarino to Auckland were overweight. They refused to handle them despite tho offer of extra pay. The loading of meat oil the Akaroa was delayed for an hour and a-half this morning because the men demanded extra pay. They are now working under protest while the Disputes Committee considers the subject. The steamer Trojan Star remains idle all day. because the men demand payment from eight o’clock instead of from ten, which the employers have refused.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 118, 18 April 1934, Page 2
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