N.Z. Watersiders to Support US. Workers in Western Dispute
P.A. WELLINGTON, Sept. 27. A message of support in the present. industrial trouble on the American Pacific Coast is being sent to-day by the N.Z. Waterside Workers’ Union to Mr Harry Bridges, of San Francisco, president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen’s Association. In accordance with a decision by its national executive, the union is expressing solidarity with these American maritime workers, and assuring them of support in their resistance to a lock-out. The union is undertaking not to handle the cargo brought to any New Zealand port by any ship that is manned by a nonunion crew, or is loaded by nonunion labour in the strike.
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Grey River Argus, 1 October 1948, Page 8
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