WATERSIDE TROUBLES
I- "'-■■■■ A HOLD-UP. ■■• | : : , ■ ■ The steamer for which no workers responded to the call for hands is still being held up for lack'of labour to discharge her general cargo. A call was made for. labour' yesterday morning again, but, as on the previous afternoon, there was no response. The waterside Workers' Union, protests that it has not, met to consider the case of this steamer, arid the officials are understood to have stated that the hold-up is the result ot individual action. I < There is very little work doing en the wharves at present,, and the pay-out yesterday was one of. the smallest in ,the history of the pay office, being just half the amount usually paid out on a rnThere is, nothing fresh to report respecting the strihe of local seamen.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 4, 29 September 1917, Page 8
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133WATERSIDE TROUBLES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 4, 29 September 1917, Page 8
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