GENERAL LOCKOUT IN AUCKLAND
Most of the Auckland Employers gave their hands a compulsory holiday on Ap. 29 to “celebrate” the arrival of the Dreadnought. Muchcheap and spurious “patriotism” was manifested by the flags etc. decorating the warehouses. An old man, wearing two coloured rosettes on each lapel, was seen picking up cigar stumps, etc., from the street refuse.
The waterside workers, some time ago, took a day off to attend the funeral of a slaughtered fellow worker, it was sugggested at the time, that they go on working, and give the day’s wages to the widow. Under compulsory patriotism they were locked out on the arrival of the Dreadnought, but the suggestion that business go on as usual, and the profits go to pay off the debt of the battleship, was received with st: ny silence.
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Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1 May 1913, Page 4
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137GENERAL LOCKOUT IN AUCKLAND Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1 May 1913, Page 4
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