HORORATA MEN WILL NOT RETURN.
DRASTIC ACTION PROBABLE. The strike, so far as Lyttelton is concerned, took n more serious turn this morning. Early, Captain Holland, master of the New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Hororata, called the crew’s delegates, numbering eight, on the bridge and informed them that the owners, in the belief that the men had been misled, had decided that if the men returned to their ship by noon on Saturday the company would be willing to waive their legal rights against the strikers, and would agree that no other punishment would be enforced. Captain Holland informed the men that it was an unofficial strike, the Seamen’s Union not recognising it. He considered the shipowners had taken up a lenient attitude, and that if the men refused the offer available to them very drastic steps might be taken against them. The delegates withdrew’ to consult with the rest of the strikers, and at 11.30 a.m. returned to inform Captain Holland that the strikers had decided to adhere to the stand they had adopted.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17632, 3 September 1925, Page 8
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