TROUBLE WITH A CREW.
THE SONOMA DETAINED AT SYDNEY. FORTY-NINE ARRESTS MADE. Irnjuis association.! SYDNEY, 30th January. The Oceanic Company's steamer So« noma wee to have sailed to-day for San Francisco via Auckland, but her departure Was prevented owing to trouble with the crew. The story of tho agents is that the firemen wished that four natives, who were shipped at Honolulu to fill the places of deserters, ihould # be ousted to make room for four men who originally belonged to the Ventura. The men's yerbion of the affair is that they were quite willing to work with natives, but a vacancy that occurred in the stokehold was filled by a Sydney man, who was not a member of their union, when it could have been filled by a man who used to bo on the Ventura. Therefore, they walked aehore when the vessel was on the point of sailing. The crew sided with the firemen. Forty-nine were arrested for disobeying orders.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1907, Page 7
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