PAYMENT UNDER PROTEST
WATERSIDERS' DEMANDS AT
LYTTELTON,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
.OHEISTCHUROH, 26th August. Through the refusal of railway watersiders to begin work at 9 a.m. unless they were paid from 8 a.m., tho New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Rotor,ua was held up at Lyttelton to-day. Work was commenced at 10 a.m. The Rotorua arrived at Lyttelton this morning from Napier to load frozen moat. Three gangs of watersiders were engaged by the New Zealand Shipping Company at 8 a.m. to prepare the ship for loading meat. Instructions wero also given for three gangs of railway labourers to commence work at 9 a.m. This tho railway labourers refused to do unless paid from 8 a.m. It was decided to pay the men as from 8 a.m. under protest, pending the decision of the National Disputes Committee in another case of a similar nature.
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Evening Post, Volume 50, Issue 50, 27 August 1926, Page 9
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