THE STRIKE AT TIMARU.
A NEW DEVELOPMENT.
MEN CLAIM A LOCKOUT.
[BY TELEGRAPH.-- ASSOCIATION.]
Timajmj, Friday. A good deal of excitement exists over work on the wharves. Two small steamers, the John and the Storm, came in to-day. Members of the Waterside Workers' Union started on the Storm at eight a.m., but left when Scott, one of the men objected to, came to work.
Another gang prepared to work the John ivlien ready at one p.m., but the stationmaster refused to allow the railway men to work with them, because the other unionist* had left the Storm. Both steamers were worked by men from the stores and railway men.
The unionists claim that the stationmaster's action regarding the John amounts to a lock-out-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15169, 7 December 1912, Page 8
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123THE STRIKE AT TIMARU. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15169, 7 December 1912, Page 8
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