SHIPPING DISPUTE.
SERIOUS DEVELOPMENT. ‘ FIGHT TO FINISH PROBABLE. Press Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyright. SYDNEY. Friday/ A serious development has occurred in the seamen’s dispute. Eight seamen of the Liter-State liner Ormiston, which arrived from Melbourne to-day, gave notice, and efforts to obtain men to fill their places proving abortive, the owners have given the remainder of the crew notice, and indefinitely, postponed the sailing of the vessel. It is anticipated that the steamer Canberra, which is several firemen short, will be similarly affected. A meeting of the Seamen’s Lmion de-c-idod to resist the attempt of the owners to deprive men of time off to attend stop-work meetings. The dispute mnj-J now develop into a fight to a finish between the men and the. owners.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 January 1928, Page 5
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