SHIP HELD UP
TROUBLE WITH WATERSIDERS.
AUCKLAND, Monday.
The small motor ship, the Port Whangarei, was idle nearly all to-day owing to waterside workers unloading the vessel refusing to continue because they objected to four of the men employed. The Port Whangarei arrived from southern ports on Sunday with a full eargo. At eight o’clock four gangs, totalling over 60 men, were engaged to unload the vessel. On account of tlic number of overseas vessels in port, no members of the. Waterside Woikers Union were available, and in consequence .all non-union labour had to be Discharging operations continued iptil 10.30 a.m., when nearly all the men on board came ashore and refused to continue working. When the foreman stevedore asked why they had stopped work, they ■Cted that they objected to four of the Ken employed. No attempt was made the agents to engage other labour in place of the men who refused to work, and unloading operations were suspended for the remainder of the day. (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 September 1936, Page 5
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