BOYCOTTED SHIP.
IDLE AT PORT CHALMERS.
DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED.
FREE LABOUR MAY BE USED,
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
DUNEDIN, this day.
The steamer Lawbeath with 4000 tons of phosphate on board, is still held up at Port Chalmers by the New Zealand Federation of Waterside Workers and the Seamen's Union, Wellington.
The Port Chalmers waterside workers' officials say they can tell nothing.
When labour was called and accepted a fortnight ago to work the vessel a meeting of the executive of the Waterside Workers' Union at the port was being held, and shortly afterwards the men intimated they would not work the vessel. The four men taken on at Lyttelton, including two non-unionists, to fill the vacances caused by the original English crew being in gaol, are still aboard. The captain expects developments, but says he does not know whether free labour will be used to work the vessel. Tho agents of the ship decline to say anything yet regarding free labour, but they say the sliip will have to be worked.
It is estimated that the hold-up is costing the shipowners £150 a day.
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Auckland Star, Issue 265, 8 November 1929, Page 10
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