Wahine’s Crew Strike at Sydney Over Unloading
(Rec. 8.20). SYDNEY, March 18. A dispute involving the crew of the Wahine, which arrived at Sydney to-day from Wellington, has held on board all the heavy baggage of passengers, also 250 bags of mail, and a consignment of livestock. The crew demands the Australian watersiders’ rates of pay before they will unload. The demands have been cabled to the head office of the Union Company at Wellington, but the baggage cannot be landed to-day, as the crew has completed eight hours of duty, and some of the men have gone ashore.
Many of the ship’s 340 passengers waited for more than six hours in the hope that their baggage would be landed. Some of the passengers were able to carry their own luggage ashore.
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Grey River Argus, 19 March 1947, Page 5
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