WHAT SHIPPING STRIKE COST
Received Snnday 7.0 p.m. SYDNEY, May 18. F.o.urte,en thousand watersfders involv.ed in the wool double-dunipiiig 1 dispute lost more than £82,000 in ■ wages. The dispute cost the ship ! owners more than £400,000, said " a shipping spbkesman. This sum was i made up of the p.ayment of crews jn port and light dues, b'ut it did not take into account the lost earning i capacity of vessels. | Mr. Forde added that the dispufe t had held up 102 ships in Ausfcralian ports. IJrgent shipments of wheat for India and foodstuifs for the United v Kingdom were heid up, and if that were allowed to continue, the hold-up would have preeipitafed a 4isastr.ous j situation in hoth the United Kingdorn and India.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 May 1946, Page 5
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