ANOTHER HOLD-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1919, Page 3

ANOTHER HOLD-UP.

WELLINGTON PORT IDLE

[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] WELLINGTON, This Day,

Another call was made this morning for labor to work the Kaitanga.ta and tSaiapol, with coal from Newcastle. No response was made by the men, and no, further call was made by the shipowners for labour. Work on other vessels in port is idle, with the exception of work being done by gangs engaged yesterday. The whole of the coastal fleet will he held up indefinitely. Tbe Pateena’s departure for Picfon and Nelson is cancelled,

EMPLOYERS STAND FIRM. WELLINGTON, This Day.

Upon enquiry from shipping sources this morning, it wa s learned that apparently in sympathy with the miners, the waterside workers in Wellington have refused to disoharge coal brought from overseas, with the result that- at the present time two vessels with about six thousand tons of coal are awaiting discharge and a third vesesl is en route. The (employers of waterside labour have felt compelled, in the circumstances, to refrain from engaging labour for any other work of the water front, until the Waterside Workers Union

make slafcibfaefory. arrangements for the unloading of coal from the vessels in the harbour and shortly to arrive, and they feel they have taken the only action possible •