CREW DELAYS SHIP A DAY
TROUBLE OVER SUBSTITUTE HAD SUEIS UNION FOR -STILL NOT PERMITTED TO WORK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. After being delayed at Auckland fo? 21 hours owing to crew trouble, the Kaiftpoin sailed for Greymouth on Saturday afternoon. The dispute w’as over a mail who was signed <n the vessel on Friday evening to replace a stoker who was missing.. At sailing time the crew bf the vessel refused to sail with the substitute bfi board because he had recently sued* th® Seamen’s Union for preventing him from obtaining .employment on. other, coastal vessels on which members of tie union were carried. The' man won liis and it was understood at the time that he would have no further difficulty in obtaining employment as far as th® Seamen’s Union was concerned. . ? Owing to the Kaiapoi’s crew continuing the objection to sail with the man, he was eventually signed off onSaturday morning and another man was engaged in his place. Afterwards the Kaiapoi took ith departure.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1929, Page 10
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