VESSEL HELD UP
AMERICAN SEAMEN RECURRENCE OF TROUBLE NEW YORK, Feb. 11. The refusal of the seamen to accept continuous discharge books which are compulsory under the Copeland Act prevented the departure, of the AmericanHawaiian freighter Columbina. The crews of several other ships are reported to be unwilling to accept the expected increased wages as a result oi the shipping strike which will cause an increase of about 25 per cent in tin: freight rates on inter-coastal ships. West, coast teamsters threatened to tie up the Matson Line ships when the line refused to grant access to the piers. Trouble was averted when the union postponed the pickets' request for a Federation investigation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 5
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