Anti-Victimisation Strike on Ship Is Settled at New Plymouth
P.A. NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 27
The strike aboard the 7000-ton Cunard White Star Line steamer, Fort Spokane, was amicably settled at New Plymouth to-day, when the ship’s master, Captain A. B. Fasting, assured the crew that the seaman, Pooley, who is in prison, will receive pay and allowances for his family and will be given a “clean” discharge on his return to the United Kingdom. The dispute arose from the sentencing in the New Plymouth court yesterday of a greaser, Robert Charles Pooley, to fourteen days’ imprisonment for assaulting the fifth engineer, Eric Wilkinson Lord. The crew claimed that Pooley had been victimised. The vessel resumed work this afternoon.
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Grey River Argus, 28 October 1948, Page 6
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