WATERSIDERS’ DISPUTE
MINOR POINTS AGREED UPON. No actual agreement was reached in the industrial dispute between the shipping companies and the Port Chalmers Waterside Workers’ Union, heard at Dunedin before the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr W. H. Hagger). The sitting lasted all day, and several minor points affecting the time for the payment of wages, transference of labour between wharf, truck, and ship, ventilation of holds, provision for coal stages over a distance of 50yds, weight and construction of slings (partial), and discharging of coal with bull ropes (partial) were agreed to. On the question of holidays the employers did not agree to the union’s counter-claim for twelve days on pay for those who had worked a year, hut the following list of holidays was agreed to by both sides. ■—New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anniversary Day, Labour Day, King’s Birthday, annual pionio day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Anznc Day. The dispute will come before the Arbitration Court in due course.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11159, 15 March 1922, Page 2
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