QUICK TURNROUND OF SHIPS
Saturday Afternoon Work
Essential
(N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 18. Replying to-day to the statement made recently in Auckland by Mr H. Barnes (National President of the Waterside Workers’ Union) that watersiders were not going to work at the larger ports on Saturday afternoons, the Acting-Minister of Labour (the Hon. J. O’Brien) said that none would dispute that many workers had been called upon to work long hours, and that the strain was being increasingly felt by these workers. The point was that the necessity for continuous working on ships in order to turn them round as quickly as possible was just as urgent, if not more so, than at any period of the war. Unreasonable overtime was not insisted upon and, in fact, it would be a bad policy. He was quite prepared to discuss the matter with the Union to see how far they could go in freeing men on Saturday afternoons without involving the complete cessation of work on these afternoons.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23205, 19 May 1945, Page 4
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166QUICK TURNROUND OF SHIPS Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23205, 19 May 1945, Page 4
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