STRIKE MAY SPREAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 7

STRIKE MAY SPREAD.

Watersiders Would Involve Other Unions. LABOUR SHORTAGE. SYDNEY, October 8. It is believed that the waterside workers will immediately move to extend the strike to the other transport organisations, as the proposal to resume work has been defeated. A number of vessels arrived at Melbourne at the week-end. Although 1800 volunteers are at work there is still a shortage of labour. At Brisbane the waterside workers have decided to recommend the Council of Trades Unions to negotiate a settlement of the dispute on the following terms: —The removal of free labour at every port. The suspension of the new award. The restoration of all previous conditions. The repeal of the Transport Workers Act. The reinstatement of all unionists. The wharf labourers at Fremantlc met to-day. A motion to resume work was declared carried but was challenged by a large section of the meeting. The disputes committee is now seeking a way out of the impasse.

MANUKA TIED UP.

Australian Strike Causes Abandonment Of Voyage. CREW PAID OFF TO-DAY. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Union Company announces that the Manuka, which was to have left Wellington yesterday for Melbourne, will be paid off in Wellington to-day. The abandonment of the voyage is caused by the uncertainty of * labour conditions at Melbourne. Some of the Manuka's passengers will proceed by the Maheno on Friday to Sydney, and thence taken train to Melbourne.