WAIPORI HOLD-UP.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 July 1925, Page 5

WAIPORI HOLD-UP.

U.S.S. CO.’S ULTIMATUM. NON-UNIONISTS TO SAIL SHIP. (BY TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GREYMOUTH, July 21. The dispute over manning the stokehold of the Union Company’s steamer Waipori which has been existing since July 2 reached a deadlock to-day, when the’ company, replying to two alternative proposa. s for a settlement advanced by the unionists, issued an ultimatum to the effect- that unless the vessel is taken to sea on to-night s tide bv the original manning, the c-om-any propose to take steps to man the ship. „ , . - The firemen, five of whom are m prison for refusing to sail, demanded originally the provision of two trimmers. The assistant union secretary, Mr Howe'l, of Wellington, later submitted alternative proposals, either to put; two of the ship’s greasers trimming with lie addition of a tfdrd. trimmer, or to increase the manning by one trimmer, to he exclusively worked by day trimming sufficient for the night watches. All the seamen unionists on the Waiori regard the company as throwing down the gauntlet, and consequenty have resolved that if non-unionists are brought to man the vessel they will refuse duty, taking the consequences. Moreover, the firemen’s original demand for two trimmers will now oe reinstated. . It i s expected the company will bring some or its permanent hands overland to mail the Waipori in the course of a couple of days.