COAL HELD UP.
TWO VESSELS CONCERNED, WATERSIDfiRS REFUSE TO WORK. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. The Kalapoi and Kaitangata. with Newcastle coal on board, are held up as the watersiders made no'response today to the call for labor. " The union officials refuse to make a statement re* garding the position. Wellington, last Night. In connection with the hold-up of the steamers Kaiapoi and Kaitangata the local disputes committee met to-day representatives of the Waterside Work*; ers' Union, who disclaimed any official knowledge of the cause of the ness to work on the part of the water" siders, simply taking up the attitude that the situation was due to individual actios on the part of the men. Although the deliberations lasted some time, no solution of the position was reached.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1919, Page 4
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