"RESUME WORK"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23191, 10 November 1938, Page 10

"RESUME WORK"

ADYICE IGNORED MINISTER'S COMMENTS MEN'S ACTION CRITICISED DEFIANCE OF EXECUTIVE [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON. Wednesday Tho attitude of the Auckland waterside workers, in the face of a recommendation from their own executive to resume work, was the subject of comment to-day by the Minister of Labour, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong. The Minister said he had been constantly in touch with the parties concerned in the dispute. Tho heads of both sides, employers and watersiders, were in Christchurch on Monday on conciliation council business and ho met them together, making some suggestions for a settlement of the Auckland trouble.

"I am informed," said Mr. Armstrong, "that later iii the day the parties concerned agreed upon terms of settlement which, I understand, are strictly in line with the terms of the award. That recommendation was telegraphed to the Auckland watersiders and their own national executive recommended them to resume work on those terms. As a matter of fact the men had a meeting and decided to hold out in defiance of the recommendation of their own executive.

"This tendency to ignore the directions of tho controlling body of their own organisation," added the Minister, "must ultimately hare the effect of destroying the working class organisation altogether and 1, as Minister of Labour, can only endorse the recommendation of the watersiders* own national executive and 'strongly advise the Auckland men to act accordingly."

* SUGAR WORKERS MEN GIVEN NOTICE DISLOCATION 0l r BUSINESS LARGE SUPPLIES HELD UP Employees at the Chelsea works of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Limited, have been (given a week's notice of the termination of their employment because of the dislocation of the company's business, which is dependent on shipping, through the dispute on the Auckland waterfront. A considerable number of workers is affected.

It is stated that operations are suffering through the holding up of large supplies of sugar. Should the dispute be settled before the expiration of the notices, the men's employment will be continued.

SUPPLIES OF POTATOES LARGE QUANTITIES HELD FEARS OF DETERIORATION " Large quantities of potatoes for the Auckland market sent up from the South Island cannot be landed from ships in port because of the dispute with the waterside workers. Heavy sprouting and other deterioration can be expected from last season's potatoes held for any length of time in the conditions likely in a ship's hold, so that a speedy settlement of the dispute is important to consignees, apart altogether from the question of the missing of present opportunities on a now ill-supplied market.