NINE SHIPS HELD UP AT AUCKLAND

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 61, 4 December 1937, Page 5

NINE SHIPS HELD UP AT AUCKLAND

-Press Association.)

Waterside Dispute Spreads to New Arrivals MINISTER TO MEDIATE?

(By Telegrapk-

AUCKLAND, This Day. Nine ships and two lighters aro now held up as the result of the trouble over the waterside workers on the Waiana. Since the tronble spread from the Waiana to the Canopus two overseas ships have' arrived — the New Zear land Shipping Co. 's Botorua, from Liverpoo'l, and the Germau freighter Gera, from New Orleans. These and five small coastal vessels and two lighters were unable to obtain men for handling their cargo. No conference took place to-day between the watersiders engaged for the 'Waiana and the employers. Nine gangs of men waited at the vessel from eight o 'clock iuntil midday, but as there were no signs of settlement by then they went away, At the waterside Labour Bureau the ■ only call made for labour was for the Waiana, but it remained unanswered. The Shipping iaud Stevedores' Association announced this morning that they intended to stand by the decision not to employ labour until the required number of men to man the Waiana came forward. f There is a belief among the water--siders that the Minister of Labour, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, may arrive by aeroplane this afternoon to mediate, but nothing is known officially. [Earlier message on page 7.]