TROUBLESOME FIREMEN
TWENTY APPLICATIONS FOR .. NINE POSITIONS. " (UvtXSD Pke39 Association J . WELLINGTON. Tuesday. There was- a change in the ■~ stokehold cr.w c f the stMnier Mararoa -at Lvtieltcn. On Monday tn e chief encineer" dischar.g-d a fireman, and a . fcr ' a number of the Seamen s Union, axfjlied. and was enfragad to fill the va- - C ancy " Thereupon nine firemen and trimmers"expr.ssed a disinclination to work alongside a foreigner, and gave notice to Lave the vssssl at Wellington to-day. Fully twenty men applied today for berths", and nine were signed on in Palace of the malcontents who were -paid off. It is stated that two cf those vrho':obiected to working with a foreigner r are foreigners themselves. f AUCKLAND WATERSIDE /V WORKERS. ' ; AUCKLAND, Tuesday. - The waterside workers observed a holiday until 1 p.m. on the occasion of the funeral cf Charles Clvte, a member of the'.union, who was killed on the wharf. ■Work was resumed punctually in the Afternoon. The only stealer seriously delayed is the Rosamond, which will not >et away till noon on Thursday. Th"e waterside workers have notified the ship-owners that in future, if one of their number is killed while at work, the whole union w'i!l observe a full day's » holiday en, the occasion of the funeral.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 29 January 1913, Page 8
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TROUBLESOME FIREMEN
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 29 January 1913, Page 8
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