WATERSIDE TROUBLE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 21 November 1924, Page 9

WATERSIDE TROUBLE.

SURCHARGE ON FREIGHT. REFUNDS TO BE MADE. (ST CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT) (AUSTRALIAN AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Eeceived November 20th, 10.45 p.m.) MELBOURNE, November 20. The .Steamship Owners' Federation has announced that the surcharge on" inter-State freight, imposed during the overtime strike, will not be imposed; and in any cases where it has been imposed, refunds will be made.

SHIP DECLARED BLACK. LOADED BY BUREAU LABOUR. MELBOURNE, November 20. Plans for launching an attack on oversea shiploading through the Sydney Labour Bureau were formulated at a meeting of the Waterside Workers' Federation. It. was announced that the Federation had declared the liner Maloja black because it was stated she was loaded at Sydney by Bureau labour. Serious developments arc not expected at other ports till ships loaded through tho Bureau are declared black. Then a direction will be issued by tho Federation that cargo on those vessels must not bo handled by unionists at different ports. A proposal is being considered to oxempt vessels loaded wholly by union labour.

MAY HAVE TO SAIL WITH EMPTY HOLDS. (AUBTBAXUH AXD K-U. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 21st, 1.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, November 20. A mass meeting of wharf labourers decided not to handlo coal for any oversea vessels declared black by tho Watersiders* Federation. It is announced that Melbournp wharf labourers will refuse to fuel tho Maloja on her arrival. The Peninsular Co. will be involved in a huge loss, as the steamer is running to a mail schedule, and the cargo may have to be abandoned. If the vessel is black in Melbourne, she will bo black in all other Australian ports, and may bo compelled to leave with empty holds. In the event of the wharfies carrying out their threat against the Maloja, the Peninsular Company will approach the Arbitration Court for a compulsory conference, and will secure non-union labour. CARTERS STAND ALOOF. REFUSAL TO JOIN IN WAR ON BUREAU. (Received November 21st, 12.45 a.m.) ' SYDNEY, November 20. A meeting of the Trolley and Draymen's and Motor-Drivers' Union declined to join fie Sea Transport Group of unions in the war on the Shipping Labour Bureau, refusing the request of the Sea Transport Group to refrain from carting goods to or from oversea steamers, on the ground that they had been declared black because they were worked by the Shipping Labour Bureau.

The union decided to continue to stand aloof from .the dispute. <