STRIKE AT PORT CHALMERS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10512, 29 December 1911, Page 5

STRIKE AT PORT CHALMERS

ENGINEERS REFUSE TO WORK. (By Telegraph—Fress Asspciatiun.) DUNEDIN, Last Night. Tlhe steamer Eoonya was docked Plort CllmEimers yesterday for an overhaul but wiien tflie siKxr© engineers- were being mustered to work on board, it transpired tliat tlkey hiad a grievance, and declined to work unless tlhey received aaii advaaioe. of li& pea* dJay. Hie dispute readied am aiauite stage to-day, and work oil, the voasieil) was practicaaOy &uispelnded. About twenty engineer's are involved, all of whom are casual employees, subject to irregular sjpefe of eomplbymeinit. Hit'hertov tilie rate*< of pay have bee«i 10s and lis, and in some cases 12s . per day; .but the mea now demand a mliuiunum of 11® pe/r day, and time aaiid a half for overtime a® round. Except tJhie present Sunday and liolliday rate, the wages cliaimed are said to be tihoise rulling itn. WeMimgiton'. Having faniHedi an Previous occasions' to get w!kiait tikey wanted tlhirougli tihe Airbirfcraitliion Oouirt, .owing; to tihe Union . Company - gfettdng' from tibie* awardv'TOio men witMlr&w £rom regifeitiratjon. Alteration Act and' Union aiwongst' liliem.selves I .' .So fa|) w&rk.on .iUie :vesa&" has wit haEK'i'Sitanice fr'om one of tlhe repair shops' on sfliore; but 'it i® joist possible the meai from thie ite~ pair sihop will wiiihcVaw cant of sympathy with the strikers. At presedit {ire* no signs of a •setltilemenjfc.