SEAMEN’S STRIKE
TROUBLE IN JAPAN (Received Nov. 26. 11 a.m.) TOKIO, Nov. 25. Seventeen steamers on the inland sea service are tied up by a determined seamen’s strike. Essential parts of engines and equipment have been removed, preventing the company from operating and employing strike breakers.
The Tariff Board at Sydney inquired into a request that ships not exceeding 1000 tons gross should he admitted free of duty. A witness said that vessels between, 500 and 1.000 tons built in Australia, cost twice as much as. those built in Britain. A representative of Mori’s Dock Company said removal of the duty would mean extinction of the shipbuilding industry.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17947, 26 November 1932, Page 5
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