TRAMP SHIP HELD UP.
WATERSIDERS' INACTION. REASON NOT ANNOUNCED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, Tuesday. Rows of empty railway wagons were standing on the rails alongside the tramp steamer Lawbeath at Port Chalmers this morning, but no move was made to discharge the 4000 tons of phosphates in the vessel's holds. No discharging has been done since the steamer arrived on Friday morning, when the waterside workers accepted an engagement to work the cargo, but did not turn to. The three men and a boy who were engaged at Lyttelton to take the place of some members of the crew who were in gaol for declining to work, are receiving New Zealand rates of wages. The waterside workers at Port Chalmers have refused to tell the captain, the stevedore or the agent what their grievance is. The ship is evidently being held up from Wellington, where the Waterside Federation and Seamen's Union executive are conferring.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 257, 30 October 1929, Page 12
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