WORK AND WAGES.
DRAWING THE COLOUR LINE. (Per Press Association.) i ‘, < i • Wellington, January 28. There was a change to-day in the stokehold crew of the steamer Harare a at Lyttelton. On Monday the chief engineer discharged a fireman, and a foreigner, a member of the Seamen’s Union, applied and was engaged to fill the vacancy. Thereupon nine firemen and trimmers expressed a disinclination to work alongside a foreigner, and gave notice to leave the vessel at Wellington to-day. Fully twenty men applied to-day for berths, and nine wore signed on in place of the malcontents, who were paid off. It is stated that two of those who objected to working with a foreigner are foreigners themselves.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 26, 29 January 1913, Page 2
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117WORK AND WAGES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 26, 29 January 1913, Page 2
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