WAR REGULATIONS
WATERSIDE WORKERS TO BE
PROSECUTED
The Labour Department has taken action imder the War Regulations in connection wit : h a recent stoppage of work on the AYellingtoii wharves, when some men refused to coal the steamers Maori and Kittawa their objection to the use of the Bnrtoii block. Regulations gazetted early in /the present month made it an offence for any persons to obstruct or delay industrial operations in war time. Forty-nine- informations have been issued' under these regulations—l 4 in connection with the Maori and 35 in connection with the Kittaw.x. The charge in each case is that the accused person "<lid an act intended to delay the proper dispatch of the steamship^ —from the port of WeTTiugton, to wit, the act of refusing, in breach of an engagement entered into, to load the said , "cssel with bunker coal, contrary to clause 15 of the regulations made on February 9, 1917, under the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916." The cases have been set down for hearing on Monday and Tuesday next. Mr. P. J. O'Regan will appear for the men. ' "V '
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3011, 23 February 1917, Page 6
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184WAR REGULATIONS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3011, 23 February 1917, Page 6
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