Wanganella Dispute Now Up To Government
—proSS Associafian
By Telegmph-
■ WELLINGTON, May L . "It is definitely up to the Gowcniment to make a-move now," dec-lared Mr. Jnmes Oabl'e," managing difector pi Wil'liam Gable and Company, Ltd.,' when he was asked tonight a'bout ihe impasse reached m the AV an'gknelLa d'iis ' pute. "Any raove now1, if it docs hot eome from the unions, must come frqrn the Government."' „ ' • Union representatives rep'Ort that a further conferen.ce of offieials corrqerned was held tliis morning- at which i1 .vas agreed that the status quo should be a-llowed to stand. N-o date for .another meeting ha.s been named. The unions were again asked to place the dispute in the hands of the onicers of the New Zealand Federaition «ofLabour but for the second time they have relused. They, prefer - to handie the matter thems'elves. Meanwhile mos't of the 200 workers who have resigned from the staff of Gable and Company, have founcl tentporary or per-manent jobs elsewhere. At least 100 are '"seagullihg'"' on the waterfront seeking and hnding luera-' tive employment as casual workers and getting sympathefie as'slstance from water side workers f . offieials.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19470502.2.52.1
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 2 May 1947, Page 8
Word Count
189Wanganella Dispute Now Up To Government Chronicle (Levin), 2 May 1947, Page 8
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in