WATERSIDE DISPUTE.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1925, Page 3

WATERSIDE DISPUTE.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMOUTH DEADLOCK. NEW PLYMOUTH. .March 12. The steamer John is being worked by her crew, the only watersidors engaged being four men employed by the Railway l)e| Lrtuient to work' the trucks. At a meeting, the AYatersiders Union to-day passed a resolution calling on t lie Labour Department to prosecute the owners for a breach of the award by creating a nick out. Flour stocks here are now perilously low. A deputation of traders visited the wlmrf this morning, hut the wateisiders meeting would not give them a hearing. The deadlock continues. AUSTRALIAN SEA A! EX. MELBOURNE. March 12. Before the Arbitration Court, the Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association applied for the insertion of a penalty el a use in the waterside workers’ award, providing that when two or more members of the Union combined in refusing; to offer themselves for work, the Union should pay £SO to the employer for each olfem-e.

Justice Powers said this was tpiite contrary to the spirit of the Arbitration Act, and he added that the matter could stand over till a new application was made. SYDNEY, March 12.

At a meeting the Returned Soldiers’ Wharf Labourers’ Union declared the steamer Voluninia “black.” but later another meeting was held, at which tile vessel was declared “white. .Meanwhile the Voluninia is idle, no effort being made to discharge her