WEEK’S WORK
1958The NewsletterWilliam Hunter Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
By Our Indostriat Correspondent Lack of work is causing unrest on the Hull docks. Last week there was a short stoppage by men who said if they were put on a certain ship there would be no work for them this week.
On Monday 240 men stopped work at the Albert Dock, claiming a bigger share of work. The stoppage lasted throughout the morning, bringing six ships to a standstill.
The men said that jobs on the weekly ships they were manning deprived them of the chance of a full week’s work. Union officials arranged to meet the port employers to discuss the men’s complaint, and they went back to work on that understanding. — .
Another 660 dockers at other docks went home because there was no work for them.
FOOTNOTE, Figures issued last week by the National Dock Labour Board showed that the previous week 18.6 per cent. of the total labour force in the docks were without work—a surplus of 13,600 men in a register of 73,000.
By Our Industrial Correspondent