DIRECTED TO OTHER WORK

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 217, 9 June 1943, Page 4

DIRECTED TO OTHER WORK

Non-Union Watersiders (Bv Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 8.. ‘Non-unionists’ work on the wharf is not constant, but the work to which these men have been directed is,” said the chairman of the Auckland Manpower,(lndustrial) Committee, Mr. J. O. Liddell, when non-union watersiders appealed against being directed from the wharves to other industries. , , . Saying he had worked on the wharves for years, Alfred C. Dimmock, who had been directed (to the. Atlantic Oil Company, expressed the opinion that ne should stay on the waterfront. He had applied to the manpower office for a permanent pass to allow him to carry on. He did not see why young men who were capable of doing any class of work should get passes entitling . them to stay on the wharves when he, ah elderly man, had to leave. ■ ’ ... Mr. Liddell said the mere fact that a man had been given, a permanent wliart pass .did not necessarily mean he would stay there. If circumstances dictated, the manpower officer might decide to transfer the holder of a permanent pass at any time. Wharf work had not been declared essential, bnt the industries to ■which the men had been directed had a close bearing on the war effort. Representing the manpower officer, Air. R. Lydford said appellant, who was 5B years old, was a plasterers’ labourer before he worked on the wharf. His job at the Atlantic Oil Co,l Tany. which was greatly in need of men, would be filhn B oil drums. . The appeal was dismissed. Ngatamariki Ngatama, a Rarotongan, appealed against his transfer from the wharf to thm Hume Pipe Company Ltd. He said he fras 39 and had. applied for a permanent wharf pass. Mr. Lydford said that for five years un to 1942 appellant worked as a labourer for the Land and Survey Department. In the last six weeks his earnings on the wharf were £3o/J/3. The appeal was dismissed.