No Overtime On Overseas Ships
(Special) AUCKLAND, This Day Until claims by three workers, each fer three hours’ overtime, have been met no ships under the stevedoring control of thhe New Zealand Shipping Company will be worked overtime.
The claims of the three workers involve in all about £2/5/-. The Auckland branch of the Waterside Workers' Union, at their monthly step-work meeting yesterday, supported the claims, and as a result none of the company’s ships were worked after 5 p.m. yesterday. Four ships are involved in the dispute. Three of these, the Faparoa, the Paringa, and the Mountpark. are loading for British ports, while the fourth, the Kent, is discharging carge from Liverpool. No cranes were available last night as the Auckland Harbour Board Employees’ Union were holding their monthly stop-work meeting.
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Northern Advocate, 13 June 1947, Page 6
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132No Overtime On Overseas Ships Northern Advocate, 13 June 1947, Page 6
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