POSITION AT LYTTELTON.
WATERSIDERS ON STRIKE
THE COAL SUPPLIES. CHRISTCHUECH, Last Night. The Federation of Labour called out the Lyttelton watersiders by telegram at 4 o'clock, and they are now on strike. . , The ferry steamers Wahine and Maori will be kept running, carrying passengers and mails, but if the coal ports are shut down, -it will be a matter of a few days only before the local bunker coal supplies are exhausted, and both ships will be compelled to stop running unless a settlement of the trouble is speedily reached. There is a fleet of oversea liners up north, with cargoes for Lyttelton amounting to over 7000 tons, but they will not reach this port until after the Wellington trouble is settled, and if other ports close down there will be no ships left in Lyttelton to be affected by the strike. Already the men are feeling the pinch very badly, owing to the small amount of work offering in Lyttelton. A very large proportion of the men have been idle for days, and they will be in a very bad position to face the strike.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 October 1913, Page 5
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186POSITION AT LYTTELTON. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 October 1913, Page 5
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