WATERFRONT TROUBLE
AT NEW PLYMOUTH. DEADLOCK CONTINUES. (Per United Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, March 12. The steamer John was being worked by her crew to-day, the only watersiders engaged being four men employed by the Railway Department to work trucks. A meeting of the Union passed a resolution calling on the Labour Department to prosecute the owners for a breach of the award by creating a lockout. Flour stocks are perilously low. and a deputation of traders visited the wharf this morning, but the watersiders’ meeting would not give them a hearing and the deadlock continues.
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Southland Times, Issue 19500, 14 March 1925, Page 5
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96WATERFRONT TROUBLE Southland Times, Issue 19500, 14 March 1925, Page 5
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