NO ACTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 238, 8 October 1928, Page 7

NO ACTION.

TO END STRIKE.

Watersiders To Refuse To License Under New Act.

OTHER UNIONS TO PAY,

(Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Having drawn up a policy for conducting the waterfront strike, the conference of maritime transport unions has concluded. ' The waterside unionists are to refuse licenses under the Transport Workers Act and the dispute must be confined to its present limits. It has been decided to take no action to end the strike. Plans have been formulated whereby other unions should provide financial assistance to the strikers and their dependants.

FIRMNESS SUCCEEDS.

LONDON COMMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, October 7. The "Morning Post" says the news from Australia about the waterside workers' strike shows that Mr. Bruce's policy of firmness is having success. If the Federal Government had been under the control of Socialists it is probable that no such firm stand would have been, made and the people of Australia would have been left to fight anarchy themselves. There is an abundance of stout stuff in Australia, as was seen in the wartime, and the people no doubt would have won through in the end, but the situation would have been incomparably more dangerous. The paper emphasises the fact that the new award actually precipitated the struggle. It says: "Machinery" between master and man, as between nation and nation, will never take the place of knowledge, sympathy, and courage, which remain in all relations of human kind the best, if not the only, pacifiers.