WORK STOPPED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1941, Page 6

WORK STOPPED

ON SHIP AT LYTTELTON BECAUSE FOUR MEN LACKED CARGO HOOKS. HOLD-UP FOR TWO HOURS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.! CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. A gang of watersiders working on the motor vessel Holmglen stopped work for two hours yesterday because, it is alleged, four members of the gang were not supplied with cargo hooks. It was stated this morning that the Waterfront Controller had transferred the four watersiders engaged as deck hands from the Holmglen to the Waipiata. The four men were replaced by four other men from the ranks of the unemployed. ‘These men had no cargo hooks. The rest of the men in the gang refused to work, claiming that, as the four men did not possess hooks, it would fall on others to do the major part wcrk involved in handling bales of wool. Work was stopped at ten o'clock and the gang was still idle at noon. By one o’clock the men had been supplied with hooks, and work was resumed. Watersiders have to provide their own cargo hooks. On top of the hold-up, which was an expensive item to the ship, the company was compelled to pay, according to the agreement, an additional hour’s wages to the four men.