POSITION UNCHANGED

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12194, 20 July 1925, Page 7

POSITION UNCHANGED

DISPUTE AT DUNEDIN NO RESPONSE TO LABOUR CALL CONFERENCE ABORTIVE Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, July 18. The position on the waterfront remains unchanged. A call was made at 7.45 o’clock on Saturday morning, for labour for the collier Kawatiri, when a large number of waterside ’ workers were present, but there was no response. There are now five vessels idle, the Kawatiri, the Wanaka, the Kamo, the Breeze, and the Kotare. The employers’ representatives asked the union to meet them in conference on Saturday .morning. At this conference the representatives of the union stated that "the great majority of its members had decided not -to depart from the position they had adopted in regard to the Kawatiri, and as a, result of this statement no further progress was made towards a settlement of the trouble. The employers state that, so far as they know, Newcastle coal is being worked at other ports in New Zealand at the rate of pay prescribed in the award. “THERE IS NO DISPUTE” The contention of the employers is that in the present instance there is no dispute. Technically, the proper course, they state, is for the men to start work, and then, if they have a complaint, they have the right to refer the {natter in the form of a dispute to the local disputes committee. NOT FOR SYDNEY NIAGARA’S NEXT TRIP. Per Presn 4 snort*Hon AUCKLAND, July 18. The Niagara, which is due on Monday from Vancouver, will not go on to Sydney, owing to tne shipping strike. She will return to Vancouver oh her schedule date.