WATERSIDE WORKERS’ DISPUTE.
TROUBLE PRACTICALLY ENDED. MEN RESUME WORK. The Dunedin Waterside Workers’ Union hold a meeting on Saturday morning at 8 o'clock to discuss the position which had arisen with regard to discharging the City of Birmingham’s cargo of case oil, when ‘hree winchmen refused work unless an -xtra 4d per hour wore granted them. The meeting lasted for close on one and a-half hours, and it was decided to inform the shipping companies that men would offer themselves for engagement to work the City of Birmingham, and would not claim the 4d per hour previously demanded. At 9.30 n.m. when the stevedore’s representative made a call for labour to work this vessel the required number of men —about 50—responded, and work was proceeded with, the hatches being lifted shortly before 10 a.m. It is expected that the discharge of the City of Birmingham’s cargo will be completed this afternoon. When a call was made for men to work the Corinna. Kaimnnawa, and Kamo on Saturday there was no response, and no work was done on these vessels. The men apparently wished to show their resentment of the attitude taken up by the Union Company in refusing to allow a call to be made for men to work the Corinua on Friday, when there was no response to the call to work the City of Birmingham. In this connection a conversation which a Daily Times reporter had with a prominent member of the union is worthy of mendon. He stated emphatically that had n been made for men to work the Corinua and other vessels on Friday, and had the City of Birmingham’s call came last, sufficient men would have been forthcoming for the discharge of all vessels. This man asserted that when work is plentiful on. the wharves the waterside workers not infrequently evince a preference for work on certain vessels, and this is what would have happened had the call been renewed on Friday, and no trouble would have resulted. The men state there is every reason to believe (bat there will be a response to a call to work the Corinna and other Union Company boats th : s morning, and if that happens, as it is expected it will, the trouble will be at an end. and those vessels will be enabled to sail this evening. The Corinna is bound for New Plymouth via way ports, the Kamo for Napier and Gisborne via way ports, and the Kaimanawa for Lyttelton and Auckland. Other vessels in port on which work was proceeding smoothly on Saturday were the Trelyon and the Dorset. The unloading of the former was completed at noon, and the vessel took her departure late in the afternoon. The Dorset, which has cargo from London on board, was working two hatches, and her discharge should be completed in time to enable her to go down to Port Chalmers to-morrow morning to load general produce. The overseas steamer Karamea, from Liverpool, which arrived at Port Chalmers on Friday morning, will come up to Dunedin to-day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19016, 12 November 1923, Page 8
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509WATERSIDE WORKERS’ DISPUTE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19016, 12 November 1923, Page 8
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