CORINTHIC DELAYED.
LABOUR TROUBLE AT HOB ART,
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
1 Hobart, January 18. -. Instead of tho Corinthio departing for New Zealand on Thursday morning, she was delayed until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, owing to trouble with the Wharf Labourers' Union.
following the usual custom in unloading cement, .threo casks at a time were placed in the slings. The secretary of the union objected that the load was too heavy, and the stevedore , engaged an extra man. . '
The union demanded that, only two casks should be hoisted together, and threatened a strike if the extra man was ■withdrawn.
Tho stevedore perforoe conceded the demands. |
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1652, 20 January 1913, Page 7
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105CORINTHIC DELAYED. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1652, 20 January 1913, Page 7
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