WATERSIDE STRIKE
UNLOADING OF SLAG
HOLD-UP AT NAPIER
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, February 13. A strike of waterside workers unloading; slag into trucks fro-m the ship Port Napier held up'work at New Plymouth this afternoon. "When work commenced this morning sheeters working on th& wharf claimed an additional rate of 6d an hour for handling slag, which they are not entitled to under the award. The claim was referred to the Disputes Committee, which refused to agree. According to the award the procedure is to refer the dispute to the National Disputes Committee, work to proceed without interruption. At 4.30. p.m. men working on the trucks refused to receive slings from the_ ship. No more work was done during the afternoon. The dispute has been referred to the National Disputes Committee.
J«lne of the world's most famous liners •were to be overhauled this winter at Southampton. The task will find employment for thousands of men.
Woods' Great feppermin. Cnre. ffoi coughs and colds, never fqila,—Advs, ~
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1933, Page 5
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166WATERSIDE STRIKE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1933, Page 5
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