RETURN TO WORK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 10, 9 December 1937, Page 16

RETURN TO WORK.

AUCKLAND SETTLEMENT. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 8. By the terms of the settlement of the waterfront dispute, those men who refused to work the Waiana on Thursday night were not included in the general engagement. Their position was discussed in the afternoon at a meeting of, the Bureau Control Board and arrangements were made for them to resume work. While the meeting was being held, these men waited outside the bureau and anxiously questioned their representatives whenever they appeared outside, indicating clearly that they were ready to return to work..

Beyond remarking that a settlement had been reached quite amicably, Mr J. Roberts declined to make any statement about the dispute. “The agreement is satisfactory to both sides,” said Mr T. Solomon (union pi’esident). “We still think that we have been acting in the proper manner in the circumstances, although it has been obvious that there have been faults on each side. The employers should not have hung out engagement discs a.t three minutes to 10 when, by the rules of the bureau, all employment must be made between the hours of eight and 10. In this case labour was called for three bis: ships when it was perfectly clear that the men could not been engaged in the three minutes in hand. The fault on ofir side was in accepting the engagement discs under those conditions. The result of the negotiations this morning cannot be called a victory for the employers because the settlement was equally satisfactory to us.”