TRUCKERS ON STRIKE.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17618, 9 May 1929, Page 5

TRUCKERS ON STRIKE.

DISPUTB AT NEW PLYMOUTH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, May 9. Cargo operations on the liner Rotorua and the tramp steamer Tregenna were held up all day yesterday owing to a dispute between the Railway Department and men who were receiving cargo into trucks from the ships’ holds.

On starting work on the Tregenna in the tnorning, the men, who are employed by the Railway Department, demanded that two “sheeters” (men employed covering loaded trucks with tarpaulins) should he employed for each truck working, instead of three fpr each two trucks, as at present. The Railway Department contended that the existing provision was ample. The men thereupon struck, and men similarly employed with the Rotorua struck in sympathy, so that operations had to he suspended on both ships. , The steamer Rarawa was worked by non-union labour, and was not affected.

A large quantity of frozen meat from Waitara and Patea is held up, some of it on the wharves and some has been taken into the Moturoa cool stores. , . -

A conference of all parties was held last night in camera, and at a late hour it dispersed with “Nothing to report.”

TRUCK GANGS 'RESUME. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, May 9. The strike of truck gangs has been ended, and vessels in port were worked. The disputes committee has not reached, a settlement.