Labours' Demands.

Hastings Standard, Volume XII, Issue 60166, 5 January 1909, Page 2

Labours' Demands.

! PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Dunedin last night.— Some sixty membwrs of the Waterside Workers Union, engaged to work the cargo on the steamer Victoria when she arrived early t! is morning, refused to work unless some non-members of the union, seven or eight in number, who had also baen engaged, were put off. The men were engaged in the ordinary way on Saturday, and the fact that some were non-unionists was not known until this morning. The men having stated their intention not towork except upon the dismissal of non-unionists, it was thought advisable, that delay in the departure of the steamer being serious, to give way to them. Three or four non-unionists expressed their willingness to join the union and were allowed to work, but the rest were dismissed. It was arranged between the two parties that members of the union should be provided with badges to enable employers to distinguish them from non-unionists.