WATERSIDE WORKERS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144855, 6 December 1915, Page 7

WATERSIDE WORKERS.

AN IMPORTANT CASE. PKR niI SS ASSOCIATION'. WELLINGTON, Dec. 6. An important matter for waterside workers came before the Arbitration Court to-day. A dispute arose regarding the Arawa industrial agreement. Counsel explained that it contemplated the possibility of overtime, even all night overtime. The men, however, refused to work after 10 o’clock. In a recent case when butter was being loaded from the Corinna into the Arawa there remained at ten o’clock only 200 boxes, but tho men refused to continue and, as it was Saturday night, the butter had to remain in the shed till Monday. • His Honour: Do you say casual labourers- can be asked to go on longer than they feel inclined to? Counsel.: Yes, once they have started. His Honour: If they do not, do you suggest it is a strike? Counsel: It is a strike, but so far as the employers are concerned wo wish to have the 'question settled amicably. It was eventually agreed that a case be stated for tho interpretation of the go art.