WATERSIDE UNION'S CLAIM REJECTED
AUCKLAND, July 27. The claitu by the Auckland br&nch of -he Waterside Workers' Union for payment for the hours between 1 p.in. and .-) p.m. on Wednesday for a gang dis missed from the Shaw Savill and Albion motorship Waiwera that mormng was rejected by the chairman of thc Auckland Port Committee (Mr. W. .J. Cuthbert) in a decisiou delivered on Saturday morning. The dismissal fo! lowed the refusal of the men to lay dunnage in No. 6 hold of the Waiwera and the union 's elaim was heard by the port comniittee on Friday afternoon. "The evidence clearlv shows that the inen were usked to perform work that was customarily undertaken by waterhde workers and vvhat the waterside workers employed in No. 6 hatch had laid a particular lot of dunnage oii which they were working when they refused to carrv 011," stated the decision. "I therefore rule that the union is unable to substantiate its claiin. ' ' The waterside workers have refused to lay dunnage since the decisiou on Wednesday of the ship earpenters' sec-t-ion of their union not to aecept overtime until their claim for an extra 6s an hour against the enrployers had been met. No non-union earpenters have since been ongaged and as a result a serious shortagc of men for routine cavpentry work has liandi^eapped caTgo operations.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 July 1947, Page 7
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