PROTESTS BY SEAMEN.
JAPANESE STEAMERS. WELLINGTON WHARF TROUBLES. [BT-TBLZGSAPH. PBJSSg ASSOCIATION.] ' WELLINGTON. Tuesday. A stop-work meeting of seamen to-day passed a motion ' strongly protesting against the employment of Japanese steamers with Japanese crews in the intercolonial trade, and instructed union headquarters to take immediate action in the interests of the whole membership of the union. The meeting also, passed a resolution:— That whereas seamen's officials had been prosecuted, convicted and ' sentenced' in 1917 under the war regulations-then,;and now in force, for allegedly holding up a section of- the mercantile marine in the shape of a few small : steamers engaged exclusively' in the coastal trade, a demand be made to the Government \to immediately prosecute under the regulations the employers of wharf labour at Wellington in allegedly causing to be held up at this port daring the past week a large section of the mercantile marine, including overseas vessels.** " . *'■•»'.'.. „ .\ ~
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17594, 6 October 1920, Page 6
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