HUNDRED SHIPS AND 9000 MEN IDLE.
BRISBANC, May 12. Steam ivas raised early this aflonioon. Waters'iders are continuing to work ua til 11 p.m. todaj'" and will resuiue lomorrow if any fruit remains to be unloaded. Union officials said that if uq 'settlement was reachcd in tlie wool dispute, they would unload in siiuilar, .mauner, 50,000 bags of potatoes which are 111 the Macedon arriving from Tasiuhuiii tomorrow. The fruit is going straight' to the market and will reach tlie pujjlic tomorrow. Owiug to the breakdown between the. Waterside Workers' Federation and Stevedoring Comniission, 10() overseas and interstqte ships aud 9000 men will be idle in the five major Australian ports tomorrow. . In Svdney 50 ships and 6000 workers arc alfected.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 May 1946, Page 2
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