STRIKERS STAY ASHORE
LIMERICK SAILS FROM | HONOLULU | Six VOLUNTEERS ASSISTING ! OFFICERS | (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIA IITORI I TOR KIUH 1•) (Received December 28, 12.50 a.m. I; HONOLULU, December 27. Six passengers joined the officers and stewards in handling the New : Zealand freighter Limerick, winch has sailed for Auckland. j Thirty-one members of the crew , struck as a protest at the use oi i non-union stevedores lor unloading■ the ship, and remained ashore, i" ; spite of the advice of the British; Consuh : The volunteer passengers \v ill take i two-hour tricks at the wheel, and, will help the four officers, 10 en-! gincers, and five sailors who re- j mained on duly. 1 | Spokesmen for the strikers pre- , dieted that the New Zealand union j would support them. j The immigration authorities de-| dared that the strikers would be subject to deportation to New Zealand in 60 days.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21976, 28 December 1936, Page 7
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