JOCKEYS’ DISPUTE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18411, 18 May 1920, Page 4

JOCKEYS’ DISPUTE.

RACEHORSES HELD UP AT LYTTELTON.

Two delegates, representing a number of the seamen and firemen of tho vessels in port, waited on the secretary of tho Seamen and Firemen’s Union at Lyttelton, yesterday afternoon, and stated that they refused to carry any* racehorses between Wellington and Lyttelton until the Jockeys’ Union was recognised. Later the representative of the seamen and firemen informed the manager at Lyttelton for tho Union Steam Ship Company (Mr Chapman) that there were a number of horses in tho railway yards awaiting shipment to tho north, that the watorsiders would refuse to handle them, and that neither firemen nor seamen would convey them to the North Island. In view of the attitude of the men the horses were sent hack to Soekburn. They aro owned by Messrs J. H. Lowe (2), J. Ayres (2), C. Carmont (2), and L. Wilson (2). RIILAV LYMEN SUPPORT JOCKEYS [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Alay 17. A joint meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and tho Engine Drivers, Firemen and Cleaners’ Association resolved to urge the Prime Alinistcr to use his‘utmost endeavour to secure the reinstatement of the jockeys Hewitt, Kao and O’Shea, failing which tho executives of both bodies were urged to declare racehorses and raco trains “ black.”

Ah tho quarterly meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Addington branch, held in tho Trades Hall on Thursday evening, the following resolution was passed:—• “ That this branch of tho A.S.R.S. sympathises with tho Jockeys’ Association in their fight for better conditions, and offers them its most hearty support.” A general meeting of the Labour Representation Committee was held in the Trades Hall on Saturday. Air H. T. Armstrong presided over a good attendance. It was decided that the committee should support the Jockeys’ Association in tho fight for recognition, and to endorse tho resolution carried at a meeting of unionists held on Alay 11.