DOCKYARD WORKERS RIOT IN VALETTA
Navy Refuses Request For Five-'Day Week VALETTA, January 3. A statement has been issued by Naval Headquarters in Malta regarding a strike by dockyard workers on Wednesday night. The message states that the Commodore and other dockyard officials were forcibly removed from their offices and some of them roughly handled. As the demonstration was turning into a riot, and the few police available were unable to quell the men, several platoons of MarineS were ordered to the scene. The complaint of the workers seemed to be a 'demand for a five-day week, a demand which could not be granted by the Naval authorities. The dockyard served the Fleet, which still had operational commitments owing to the troubled state of this part of the world. Saturday morning work was often required, 'and the men worked a 47-hour week.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5293, 4 January 1947, Page 6
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142DOCKYARD WORKERS RIOT IN VALETTA Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5293, 4 January 1947, Page 6
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