UNIONISTS AND FREE LABOUR
CHRISTCHUBCH, This Day.
Early on Saturday evening an affray ■occurred on the ferry steamer Wahine at Lyttelton, as a result of which a fireman is under arrest on a- charge of assault, and two other "unionists find themselves .ashore without a ship. 1 The trouble occurred in the quarters of the stokehold crew. There-were three union firemen on the Wahine, the remainder being non-unionist." As a result of an altercation the.,man under arrest is alleged to have struck a non-unionist over the head with an iron bar. The other free labourers at" once, it-is alleged, adopted a menacing attitude towards the unionist, and the intervention of the office^ was necessary. Captain Cameron ordered three union 1 men ashore, and one was placed under arrest. ■ The others will be paid off to-morrow.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 29 January 1923, Page 8
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135UNIONISTS AND FREE LABOUR Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 29 January 1923, Page 8
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