GO SLOW ALLEGED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1939, Page 6

GO SLOW ALLEGED

ON WELLINGTON V/HARVES.

DENIAL BY UNION OFFICIALS. (By Telegraph—Press Association ) WELLINGTON, This Day. There was definitely a go-slow movement on the Wellington wharves yesterday, said Mr W. H. G. Bennett, general secretary of the Waterside Employers’ Association, last night. He made this statement when asked to confirm a . rumour that the waterside workers were working slowly yesterday afternoon. Officials of the Waterside Workers' Union denied any knowledge of the go-slow policy, but there definitely was one, he said. It was difficult to give the correct reason for the policy, as the employers had heard only rumours. One was that the men were dissatisfied with the delay in getting their new award and the other was that they were dissatisged with the result of the conference with the Minister of Labour last week.

The men worked normally in the morning and it was not till 1.30 p.m. that the slowing-down in the work was noticed by the employers. The German steamer Cassel would have completed loading by 5 p.m. had it not been for the delay, but work on her was not finished late last night.

The loading of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Piako and the Blue Star Line steamer Doric Star also proceeded slowly yesterday afternoon and last night, as did the discharging of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s motor-liner Rangitata,