WORST HOLD-UP SINCE 1913 LIKELY
AUCKLAND, August 11. Today the Port of Auckland became completely idle, threatening the most serious hold-up since 1913. The watersiders did not accept the shipping companies' offer to take engagements after this morning's monthly stonwork meeting of the union, conditional on resurping overtime. The emnlovers do not intend to make a further call for labour untii the watersiders agree to work overtime.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19490811.2.31.4
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 11 August 1949, Page 5
Word Count
67WORST HOLD-UP SINCE 1913 LIKELY Chronicle (Levin), 11 August 1949, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.