STEAMER HELD UP.
DEMAND BY LABOURERS. QUESTION OF PAYMENT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PEESS ASSOCIATION.} CHEISTCHURCH. Thursday. Through the refusal of railway waterside workers to begin work at 9 a.m. unless they were paid from 8 a.m., the New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Rotorua was held up at Lyttelton to-day. Work was eventually commenced at 10 a.m. The Rotorua arrived at Lyttelton this morning from Napier to load frozen meat. Three gangs of waterside workers were engaged by the New Zealand Shipping Company at 8 a.m. to prepare the ship for loading meat.' Instructions were also given for three gangs of railway labourers to commence work at 9 a.m., but this the railway labourers refused to do unless they were paid from 8 a.m. Finally it was decided to pay the men as from 8 a.m. under protest, pending the decision of the National Disputes Committee in another case of a similar nature.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 10
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