WATERFRONT WORK

Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22784, 7 January 1944, Page 6

WATERFRONT WORK

Sir. —As one of the working bees of the hive, those pulling their weight and willing to assist shipping companies to get their ships loaded, I, along with other employees of the Timaru Milling Company, went down to the picking place on the wharf this week. Three of us did not get a job. Before leaving, I asked the other two if they got a job. They answered that the storemen and Timaru Milling Company employees all got jobs, and they called them a lot of “scabs." I informed them that I was also one of the employees of the Timaru Milling Company. I was on the point of leaving when I remembered that I had seen an advertisement at the Manpower Office calling for a number of men for public works. I turned back and asked these men whether they wanted a job. I told them that n they went to the Manpower Office they could get a job on public works. What they then called the public works is unprintable. They were young men and seem to prefer being down at the wharf. As there are men wanted all over the country, it seems to me that they are ■not prenared to take other work when it is offering. I have my only’ son in Italy and when there is plenty of work for everybody. I. with other employees of the Timaru Milling Company object to being called “scabs" by the drones of the hive.—l am. etc.. F. W. NICHOLL.