REFUSAL TO WORK VESSEL
WATERSIDERS WILL BE PENALIZED (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 27. Because of a dispute over dirt money on the Canterbury Shipping Company’s motor-ship Breeze at Wellington on Wednesday afternoon the waterside workers concerned were paid off yesterday morning. No further men would accept engagement on the Breeze and as a result the vessel was idle from 9 a.m.
On Wednesday, afternoon the waterside workers asked for fourpence an hour extra dirt money for handling leaking casks of pelts. This was thought excessive and they were offered threepence an hour, which they refused. The men were thereupon discharged and when a call was made for working the Breeze yesterday the men engaged refused to lift their disks. After a conference this morning it was decided by the men to return to work pending a settlement of the dispute. The Waterfront Commission holds that a breach of the order of the commission has been made and announces that the men concerned will be penalized.
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Southland Times, Issue 24243, 28 September 1940, Page 6
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166REFUSAL TO WORK VESSEL Southland Times, Issue 24243, 28 September 1940, Page 6
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