STOP-WORK MEETINGS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21328, 1 November 1932, Page 10

STOP-WORK MEETINGS

SEAMEN AND WATERSIDERS MONTHLY GATHERINGS TO-DAY The waterside workers will hold their usual monthly stop-work meeting this morning and no cargo work will bo done on vessels in port before 10 o'clock. The meeting will cause a delay to work on the Royal Mail liner Niagara, which arrived from Vancouver yesterday afternoon and is scheduled to sail for Sydney at 11 o'clock to-night. The vessel has about 2300 tons of general cargo to unload at Auckland. The usual monthly stop-work meeting of the Seamen's Union will also bo held this morning and will bo attended by members of tho union on all vessels in port. Arrangements are always mado by officials of the union that during a stopwork meeting sufficient men are left on board tho vessels to keep up steam in tho boilers for working cargo. It is understood that at this morning's meeting a discussion will take place regarding the proposed terms which havo been made by the shipowners to replace the agreemont under which the men are now working and which expired on August 31. The matter will also be discussed al, stop-work meetings to bo held this morning at Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin.