FIREMEN'S DIGNITY.
(Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, January 28. There was a" change to-day in the stokehold crew of the steamer Mararoa. At Lyttelton on Monday the chief engineer discharged a fireman, and a foreigner, a member of the .Seamen's Union applied and was engaged to fill the vacancy, ■ Thereupon" nine firemen and trimmers expressed a disinclination to work alongside a foreigner and gave natiica to ileavte (fihfj (vessel alfc Wellington to-day. Fully twenty men applied to-day for berths and nine were signed on in place of the malcontents who were .paid off. It is stated that t\yo of those who objected to working with a foreigner are foreigners themselves. • -i
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12857, 29 January 1913, Page 5
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110FIREMEN'S DIGNITY. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12857, 29 January 1913, Page 5
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