WATERSIDE HOLD-UP.
NO CHANGE AT WELLINGTON. EIGHT HUNDRED MEN IDLE. TWENTY VESSELS DELAYED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. There was no change in the position on the waterfront to-day. No boats arriving since Tuesday ar. midday have been worked, with the exception of the Lyttelton ferry boats. Twenty vessels are now idle, and 800 watersiders are unemployed. A peculiar development occurred this morning. Yesterday the men working the Port Alma took a ballot when rain fell heavily, and decided to knock off. They were immediately discharged. This morning they were recalled for work on the same boat, and every one accepted employment. They thus accepted work under the same conditions as the men working the Calm refused.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 235, 1 October 1920, Page 5
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