UNREST AMONG WATERSIDERS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15133, 30 January 1917, Page 7

UNREST AMONG WATERSIDERS.

TROUBLE GROWING AT WELLINGTON. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 30. The conditions on the waterfront are reported to be becoming more unsatisfactory. This morning the men did not present themselves for engagement at 7.4.5. It is understood they desire an alteration so that their hours will be from 8 to 9 o’clock. As the men were not available at the usual time, the labour foremen left the stands. Men were afterwards picked up for boats which arrived later. A call was made for labour to work a Homo steamer, the gangs from which were dismissed yesterday, but none were obtained. On another boat which was butter-loading, the gang oi which was discharged yesterday. chcts;-!oading continued to-day. The American .-teanur EuTrird Luchenback. with, a cargo of kerosene, also experienced trouble, a dispute arising as to the rate of pay, the men claiming she was an oil steamer and that they were entitled to 2s an hour instead of Is ICd. The employers disagreed, and work was stopped. Later the employers found that the vessel was an oil-steamer under the agreement,-and a gang was engaged on the terms demanded. Imperial meat is going aboard one vessel at much below the usual rate, and the result was that many hundred carcases were not disposed of to-day, and it will be impassible to discharge them from the trucks till to-morrow.