SEAMEN’S ACTION
an important meeting.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] • WELLINGTON, Oct. 5. A stopwork meeting of seamen to-day passed a motion strongly protesting against the employment of Japanese steamers with Japanese crews in the inter-Colonial trade, and instructed the Union headquarters to take immediate action in the interests of the whole membership of the Union. The meeting also resolutioned that whereas seamen’s officials had been prosecuted, convicted and sentenced in 1917 under the War Regulations then and now in force for allegedly holding up a section, of the mercantile marine in the shape of a few small steamers engaged exclusively in coastal trade, a demand be made to Government -to immediately prosecute under the Regulations, the employers, of wharf labour at Welling* ton which is allegedly causing .to. be held up at this port, during the-./past-week, a large section of the mercantile marine, including oversea vessels:-^
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1920, Page 3
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146SEAMEN’S ACTION Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1920, Page 3
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