Crew Members Leave Ship
(New Zealand Press Associationf
WELLINGTON, April 27. Thirteen members of the crew of the British freighter Waiwera left the ship at Wellington to-day just before it was due to sail.
They slid down the stern ropes after police had stopped them at the gangway about 2 p.m. By 9 p.m. 12 of the men had been arrested and will appear in the Magistrate’s Court tomorrow morning.
The whereabouts of the thirteenth seaman was not known at 11 p.m.
The men walked off because of a domestic dispute believed to be connected with the recent controversial adoption of a 56-hour working week at sea by the British Seamen’s Union. The Waiwera is now in the stream at Wellington. She was put under way by officers and the men who remained aboard.
Owned by the Shaw Savill Company, the ship is now due to sail tomorrow afternoon.
Captain H. Winyard, Marine Superintendent of the Shaw
Savill Line denied the walkoff had anything to do with the British union’s 56-hour working week at sea.
He said the walk-out arose from a “purely domestic matter” but would not elaborate.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30736, 28 April 1965, Page 1
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