DEADLOCK AT WATERSIDE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 20 July 1925, Page 8

DEADLOCK AT WATERSIDE.

NO WORK AT DUNEDIN :i j

By Teleitiaph- -Tress Association. DUNEDIN, July 19

The position on the waterfront remains unchanged. A call was made at 7.45 a.m.. on Saturday for labour for the collier Kawatiri, when a large number of waterside workers were present, but there was no response.

There are five vessels now idle — the Kawatiri, tlie 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 tlie 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 eiiiployers 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 tlie award. The contehtion 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 matter in the form of a dispute to the Local Disputes Committee.