DOCKING OF PAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 7

DOCKING OF PAY

RESENTED BY MINE WORKERS. OPERATIONS HELD VP. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, October 23. Idle on Monday because of the dismissal of a trucker, the Strongman State Mine was idle again today because of some of the men taking exception to the fact that their pay had been docked for time lost on the day of the last quarterly cavil, Thursday, October 16. Only shiftmen and truckers were affected by the docking, but their decision to return home when they received their pay dockets this morning, disclosing that they were not paid for time lost, idled the mine, about 150 men being affected. . On cavil day it is an established , practice for miners to leave early and. for shiftmen and truckers to carry on the shift. For some time men other than miners have been leaving the Strongman mine early on cavil day, but no official notice has been taken of it. However, on the last cavil day the number was so great —between 20 and 30—that the management had no I option but to take action and have the | pay of the men concerned docked for the time lost. The men received their pay dockets this morning before being paid tomorrow, and when it was found that the lost time had not been credited io them they decided to return home, it is stated that at the Liverpool mine men other than miners have been in the habit of leaving the mine early on cavil day and that over a period of years they have not been paid for time so lost.