STRIKE IN THE NAVY.
(Received Saturday, at 9.20 a.m.)
LONDON, Thursday
The Daily Chronicle states that eigM seamen on a British destroyer were charged with mutiny at Devonporr. The prosecution states that the mem refused duty because a commander refused to create three watches insieatf of two. The commander went ashore, and tic* men hoisted the red flag, though they hauled it down at the commander's o*der. One of the accused declared thut haia? the British Navy was on strike, avicf the remainder would soon be. They refused to work in two watches on tho existing pay.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13751, 1 February 1919, Page 5
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