LOADING OF SHIPS HELD UP AT AUCKLAND

Chronicle (Levin), 29 July 1947, Page 5

LOADING OF SHIPS HELD UP AT AUCKLAND

-Press Assocvatioh

By Telegrctph

AUCKLAND, July 28. . Further delays in the working of oVCi'seas ships on thfe Auckland waterfront ivere inCui-red today when watfersidd workers continiied in their refusals to handle dunnage and were dismissecl Under penalty by their Cmployers. . Six hatches 011 three vessels', the Rangitiki, Waiwera and Largs Bay, remained idie all day and work in two other hatches eame to a staridstiil at periods later in the day as further dunnaging becaine nBCessary. A further stopwork meeting of the ship carpenters' section of the Waterside Workers' tJnion was held during the morning and at 1 p.m., the entire union helcl a stopwork meeting for 5U minutes to eonsider the position. The usual call for labour to work the hatches Which were renderCd idle today by the watersiders' attitude, will d e made by the employers tomorrow morning. When the waterside Workers found this morning that the timbering whieU they had refused to remove from the efirgo on Friday from the liner Largs Bay, had been taken away during tfie Weekefid, work was refdsed in the tWo holds Concerned. The diseharge of cargo from the third hold came to a standstill at 11 a.m. when further timbering required removing. The vvatePsiders refused this work and were dismissed by the employers. Oh No. G hatch of the liner Waiwera, which has beeh affected since WedneSdfiy bv the union.'s attitude toward the handling of dunnage, a few men reportbd for wdrk this rtiofning but ieft tlie ship soon after. Thrfee h'atches on the New Zeaiamt Shipping Company's liner Rangitihi, which is loading refrigerated and general cargp for London, remained idle thftmghottt today after the gangs had been dismissed under penalty bv the employers. ' Following the men's refusal to lay diinnage, gangs in an other hatch in the vessel wfere sUspended at seven o'clock thiS evenirtg wheii the progi'ess of' the loading made fuU theT dunnaglngrnecfissafy. lleinbers oi' the ship cafpenters' sec •tioh df the 'Wathrside Workers' Union again refused overtiine tonight. Referring to the 'reported statemeni of the Waterside Workei's' Union, iMr H. Barnes, that the union would not d> the carpenters' worlq Mr. E; C. Buseku; ruanager of tlie Port of Auckland Shipping and Stevedores' Associatioi! said that at no stage had the water siders been asked to pferform car pertters' dutiejh All that was expected Was foi- tlie whtel'siders to earry oui the work always performed by thenl.