WATERFRONT WORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22517, 7 September 1936, Page 8

WATERFRONT WORK

NORMAL ON SATURDAY MEN ACCEPT OVERTIME

DELAYS" TO STEAMERS Cargo work on the waterfront wat resumed on Saturday morning after being suspended on Friday night owing to the - waterside workers refusing tq work after 5 p.m. on the Port: Line steamer Port Hunter, the Port .Line motor-ship Port Hoba.rt, and the Union Company's steamer Waipiata, and the Matson Line steamer Monterey. The Monterey sailed for Sydney and Melbourne on Friday night after being finable to unload the remainder of her cargo for Auckland, over 400 tons o! fruit and general merchandise for New Zealand being still on board. The Port Hunter was to have sailed for London on Friday night, but she was unable to do so because of the men's action. When work ceased on Friday about 950 crates of cheese re* mained to be loaded on the vessel. The

cargo was taken on board on Saturday morning and the vessel sailed about 11 o'clock.

Although the waterside workers re» fused to -work overtime ol Friday evening they continued handling cargo at the Port Hobart and Waipiata on Sat* urday until 5 p.m., the work in tha afternoon being overtime. Owing to the delay on Friday night both vessels were unable to sail for Wellington on Saturday, as was intended, and their departure was postponed until to-day. On board the Port Hobart were 14

valuable Clydesdale draught horses from Glasgow and consigned to Wellington. Owing to the delay to the Port Hobart the horses were landed at Auckland on Saturday morning and despatched south by the Main Trunk express in the after* noon. " CALLIOPE DOCK POSITION .« j ' CIVILIAN WORKERS ABSENT

The majority of tho civilian employ* ees at the Calliope Dock who decided on Friday night not to work on Saturday morning did not do so. Only 23 of about 120. engineers, carpenters, shipwrights and painters reported for work at the dock and they were given ein * ployment until mid-dav as usual. No men were engaged in place of the absentees arid the work that they TroU ' have been engaged on was suspended for the week-end. The civilian labour at the dock is employed on a casua basis at hourly rates and no action will' be taken against the men wbo.r®* mained away on Saturday. They will allowed to resume this morning.