VESSEL HELD UP.
TROUBLE ON WATERFRONT. MEN REFUSE WORK. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Monday. The coastal steamer Tiroa, loading sleepers for Auckland, was subject to a dispute to-day, the watersiders demanding an increase in the number of men working the holds and also on the railway trucks on the wharf. The vessel’s owners agreed to increase, the gang in the hold, but refused concession as lo trucks, suggesting that the work proceed and the matter he referred to the local Disputes Committee. The union is stated to have refused this suggestion, and taken all men off the forehold, a small gang still working the afterhokl, hut when they complete their work the vessel will be held up pending the issue of the dispute over the forehold.
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18804, 28 November 1932, Page 8
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