SHIPPING DELAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 10

SHIPPING DELAY

PORT CAMPBELL CASE

MEN PENALISED

The case of the men who refused to i work, during the meal.hour on the Port Campbell on Tuesday evening was considered by the Control Board of the Wellington Waterside Labour Bureau today, and it was announced, after the meeting, that the men had been penalised under the rules of the bureau by being "stood down" for two days. This means that they will be prohibited from obtaining work for two days.

Work is being carried on normally on the waterfront today. % ■ Thewatersiders who were discharged from the Fort Campbell on Tuesday evening, when some of their number refused, to work during the meal hour, consider that they were "unjustly treated by the employers. It is stated that seven out of twenty-one men refused to work. The seven men would not change their minds and the whole gang was discharged. According to Mr. J. O. Johnson, secretary of the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union, the employers could easily have supplemented the gang for the meal hour by obtaining seven men from another gang, but they made no attempt to do this. Instead they merely put the men off and put the crew of the ship on the job. When the other gangs returned from tea and found the crew working, they refused to work withj non-union men and left the job. "The men's objections to working with nonunion men were well-founded, as union men were available," said Mr. Johnson.