FISHING FLEET 'STAYS IN'
SOUTHLAND DISPUTE ARGUMENT AP.OUT PRICE (Pur Press Association.) INVERCARGILL. this day. The Southland fishing fleet remained at its moorings yesterday and will continue to do so until a dispute that has arisen between the merchants and the fishermen has been settled. The dispute is over the price of fish paid to the men by the merchants, who are seeking a reduction of 5s a 1001 b. Up to the time of the cessation of work, the men were beind paid 32s a 1001 b. The secretary of the Fishermen's Union says the fleet will remain tied up in the meantime because the agreement between the fishermen and the merchants has been broken by tiie merchants.
The fishermen at Bluff, Stewai Island, Pegasus and on the West Coasi numbering about 200 men, are idle.
Merchants deny that any agrecmen has beca broken. They say the on ginal breach of the agreement wa ■made by the union.
The cessation of fishing operations will have a serious effect, not only ..'i Stewart Island, but on the whole of Southland. Exports of fish form a big part of the export trade of Bluff, which, in the export of fish, has risen
from fourth place to second .\i .\ : c Zealand in four years.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19698, 2 August 1938, Page 6
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