WATERFRONT WORK
MEN EXPECTED TO RETURN TO WORK Wellington' This Day. The waterfront dispute concerning the unloading of a cargo of guano at. Wellington was .still unsettled yesterday. The company handling the cargo is not prepared to pay the rate of 4s 6d an hour claimed by the men, who did not turn to at 8 a.m.' yesterday. It was then raining. An official of the company said that the men went away at 10 a.m. It was line later in the day and the ship could have been worked. However, it was expected that the men would turn to this morning If the men persist in their refusal they will be liable to be penalised by the Waterfront Control Commission, which has the power to suspend them from all work on the waterfront. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 2 August 1941, Page 5
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135WATERFRONT WORK Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 2 August 1941, Page 5
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