AUCKLAND BUTCHERS

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 278, 26 November 1919, Page 8

AUCKLAND BUTCHERS

WATER3IDERS REFUSE TO

LOAD MEiAT,

rPw.su Association.!

WEOLIiNGTON, Nov. 26. The waterside -.yorkers, in sympathy with the butchers' strike, refused lo load, meat in case* and barrels from the Auckland companies on tho Island' steamers Talune .and Flora, but handled tranship- : jnents from the south. The stewards started to load the moat, but soon desisted. Quite a number of ca.r--ioads had to be sent back from the wharf.

Tlie watersiders otote that they are not acfciu(g under the union's instructions, but purely on their own; individual responsibility. • The chairman of tho Chamber of I<3ommerco". telegraphed to Mr Massey .asking him ■-tq appeal to the watersiders not' to penalise tho island resn dents on account of a purely local xlispute. '■ ' ■ - ■•■■