WATERSIDE TROUBLE.
PLAINT OF FREE WORKERS. PREFERENCE NOT BEING GIVEN. MELBOURNE, Nov. 28. The volunteer wharf labourers complain that the shipowners are not honouring their promise to accord them preference after they had first accepted work at great personal risk. • '•
The complainants say they are still taking risks. One speaker at a mass meeting remarked that they were all marked men. The volunteers were workers, not loafers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20116, 29 November 1928, Page 11
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