WATERSIDERS SAY NO BREACH
WILL WORK WITH USUAL APPLI- ■ ANCES. [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Juno 38. In reply to a letter from the owners of the barque Alice A. Leigh, held up because watersiders refuse to work bar with the new “skips,” Mr Bruce, secretary of tho Waterside 'Workers’ Union, states: “Your statement that a breach of the agreement has been committed by our union is incorrect. The fact is that a breach of the agreement and also a breach of the marine regulations has been committed by your company.” The secretary adds that the protection of life and, limb comes first; the cost of living would he of little concern to a dead man. There is no need to lose £2OO a day, as the watersiders are waiting to work the vessel in the usual way, by basket or grab, until tho dispute is settled. *
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Evening Star, Issue 17691, 18 June 1921, Page 4
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