SHIPS HELD UP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 148, 26 June 1934, Page 6

SHIPS HELD UP

TROUBLE AT LYTTELTON NO SETTLEMENT YET. EIGHT VESSELS AFFECTED. ( Per Press Association ). CHRISTCHURCH, June 25. No settlement was reached to-day in the dispute between the employers of waterside labour at Lyttelton and the waterside workers regarding the “go slow’’ tactics alleged to have been used by the men in working the Union Company’s steamer Wingatui, and including the Maori, which loaded only mails and perishable goods. Eight vessels were affected by the dispute. It is stated that there is a possibility that work will be resumed to-morrow morning. Two calls were made for the Wingatui this morning, but the .only men offering were those discharged from the Wingatui on Friday. Their services were not accepted. The Union Company wanted fresh men before engaging "further labour for other ships, but no men are offering. The other vessels are idle. An exception was made in discharging- frozen produce from the Foxton. The Tees is outside the Employers’ Federation, and loaded stores for the Chathams. At noon two gangs were engaged for the Maori, the stipulation being that they would load only perishable goods.

FRUIT DECLARED “BLACK” CARGO HELD AT WELLINGTON ( Per Press Association ). AUCKLAND, June 25. Between 300 and 400 cases of oranges, lemons and grapefruit consigned to Christchurch, and Dunedin arc held up at Wellington. The fruit was loaded on the Matson liner Monterey at Los Angeles by nonunion labour, and when the vessel reached Auckland last Friday week the watersiders there would not handle thc cargo, which was put ashore by the ship’s crew and Harbour Board hands. The fruit was then railed to Wellington, but attempts to ship it south by the inter-island boats have been frustrated by the local watersiders, who refuse to handle cargo which has been declared “black.” On one occasion thc fruit was said to have been loaded on a south bound steamer, when an order came to unload it again, as otherwise graver trouble might have ensued. _