INDIAN LABOR RESENTED.
WORKMEN DOWN TOOLS. By Telejraph.—Press Associative Christchurch, Last Night. About twenty-five men working on the Lyttelton-Sumner road downed tools to-day as a protest against the Public works Department employing foreign laborers. The imported men number five and are Indians. It is alleged they were sent by the Department from Auckland. Later. The trouble on the Lyttelton-Sumner road has been settled. 1 Subsequently it was decided that, on account of the feeling existing, the Hindus should not be engaged on the Evans Pass works under any arrangement.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1920, Page 5
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89INDIAN LABOR RESENTED. Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1920, Page 5
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