WORK RESUMED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26437, 16 April 1947, Page 4

WORK RESUMED

REPAIRS TO WANGANELLA SOME UNCERTAINTY REMAINS DIVERGENCE ON WAGES CLAIM P.A. WELLINGTON, Apl. 15. Fifty-three days after the Wanganella was declared “ black ” the secretary of the Wellington Boilermakers’ Union, Mr P. E. Warner, instructed his men to resume working on materials for use in the repair of the liner in the floating dock. While work was resumed this morning, the uncertainty is not yet ended, for although both the unions and the employers have agreed on a tribunal to determine the special payments to the shore workers engaged on the Wanganella, there still exist differences of opinion over the terms of reference for the tribunal. The unions want the

tribunal to consider two separate issues—special payments to the boilermakers while the liner was still on Barrett’s reef, and an additional payment for work done while the snip is in the floating dock. , The employers hold that the second claim is a legitimate consideration for the tribunal, but assert that the question of special payments for the time the Wanganella was on the reef is not a dispute. They claim that special payments were made then by agreement and accepted by the unionists.