WATERFRONT DISPUTE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1941, Page 9

WATERFRONT DISPUTE

TROUBLE WITH COOL STORE HANDS. POSITION OF WATERSIDF.RS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.> AUCKLAND. January 8. The position of the 140 chamber hands who were dismissed last Friday by the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company. Limited, was raised when a meeting of representatives of the Auckland Freezing Workers' and Related Trades Union was called to discuss the situation with the employers today. It was stated tonight that no change in the position of the men resulted from the meeting. Five waterside workers who walked off their jobs on Monday and Tuesday when asked to handle butler and cheese from the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company's cool stores were reinstated on the waterfront today. The position of the men. who suffered the usual penalty of being stood down for two days or. as in this case, for the duration of the job on which they were engaged at the time of dismissal, will be investigated by the Waterfront Control Commission.

A two-hour stop-work meeting of waterside workers was held this morning when, after domestic problems had been discussed, questions were asked regarding the union attitude to the cool store dispute. The secretary of the union. Mr A. Girven. was asked to call a meeting of the executive. This was hold in the afternoon but adjourned till full details of the dispute and the representative attitude of the freezing workers throughout the province could be ascertained from the Auckland Freezing Workers' and Related Trades Union. No statement about the discussion at the stop-work meeting or at the special executive meeting was made by the Waterside Workers' Union.