ALLEGED SEDITIOUS STRIKE.
* fUnwed Feesh Association.]
Qamarii, Oct. 16: : At the Magistrate's Court to-day the Labour Department proceeded against 34 watersidei'son a charge ■that on July 2fcjth, 1189, at Oamaru, they were parties to a seditious strike, ;to wit, a strike of wharf labourers, which strike was seditious in that it Had' a tendency to interfere with the effective conduct of an industry declared l>y regulation to bo an industry essential for the public welfare, to wit; the loading and unloading of ships. The charge arose out of the alleged refusal of the watersiders to work after 2 o'clock at night unloading the Kittawa, carrying coal. The Magistrate reserved his decision
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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14894, 17 October 1918, Page 7
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111ALLEGED SEDITIOUS STRIKE. Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14894, 17 October 1918, Page 7
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