AUCKLAND WATERSIDERS
WORK ON HOLIDAYS. ‘ REFUSAL TO HANDLE CARGO. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. March 22. As no settlement has been reached after more than a year of dispute between shipowners and the Auckland branch of . the Waterside Workers’ Union on the question of work on holidays. no action is being taken by the union in response to a request to handle cargoes on three overseas ships on Easter Monday. . The ships, aggregating. more than 34.000 tons, comprise two with cargoes from Britain and one to load produce Homeward. Alter a request from the Shipowners’ Federation that the three vessels should be worked, the controller of the waterfront at Auckland. Mr R. E. Price, called a meeting of both parties on his return from Wellington on Thursday. No action was taken by the meeting. Explaining his position in a statement issued after the conference. Mr Price said application was made to him by the federation at Wellington on Wednesday. As current awards provided that any work on holidays must be by arrangement between the union and the employers concerned, and as the regulations administered by the controller did not confer upon him powers to alter or vary an award in any way. Mr Price said, he had no jurisdiction to demand that the men should work on Easter Monday., "However," continued the controller. "I called a meeting of the parties to discuss die position, and learned from thal meeting that holiday work was the subject of a long-standing dispute, which had been referred to t lie national disputes committee a long time ago. No decision has yet been given. In the circumstances, I am unable to enforce Easter Monday work on the three vessels."
A representative of the employers stated Ihat till the end of 1933 th c mon of the Auckland union gave good co-operation in working on holidays, pay being on a double-time basis During the holiday at tile end of that year non-unionists wore given work
nf-.ir union labour had declined. The dispute had then arisen and had not yet been settled.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1940, Page 3
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344AUCKLAND WATERSIDERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1940, Page 3
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