JOCKEYS' STRIKE SEQUEL.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 118, 18 May 1920, Page 7

JOCKEYS' STRIKE SEQUEL.

HORSES DECLARED "BLACK." BY CREW OF THE MAORI. (By Telegraph.—rress Association.) CHEISICHiURCH, Monday. The latest development in connection with the joekeje* dispute took place at •Lyttelton to-day, -when the crew of the ferry eteamer Maori notified the Union Company that they would not sail il racehorses -were shipped. This action was taken apart from the Seamen's Union. It seenvs that the men held an informal conference during the week-end, and to-day two of their number waited on the local secretary of the t-eanien'd Union and asked him to inform the Union Company that tlie seamen and firemen would not sail with any racehorses aboard until the Jockey's Union is recognised. This also applies to ail coastal vessels running between the two islands. The shipowners were informed accordingly. The watereide workers also intimated that they would refuse to load horses in the face of the action taken by the seamen. Six horses in charge of trainers L,owe, Ayres, Wilson, and Carmont arrived at L.yttelton for shipment by the Maori, but were sent back to Riccarton, the Union Company refusing to take the responsibility of endeavouring to load them.