DEADLOCK CONTINUES
AtSTRALlAN SHIPPING STRIKE Received Tliursday, 9.10 p.m. SYDNEY, Oct. 17. No aftempts are yet being made to settle the waterfront deadlock which has immobilised 57 ships. Sydnev faces a potato faniine as tliere is a shortage already and two ships in tlie liarbour cannot be unlosided. A sub-committee of the Stevedoring [ndustry Commission was to have left for New Zealand shortlv to studv cargo handling conditions there but the trip w'ill not be made until the dispute is ended. Cargo awaiting shipment or in holds amounts to 72,000 tons including over 10,000 tons awaiting shipment to New Zealand. Woolbuyers today decided to attend the Brisbane sale next week but will not do so if the industrial trouble extends 10 Queensland. Meanwhile the good record of the c.oalmining industry during tlie past few wceks, is tlireatened by a decision of the miners at ten large northern coal mines to stop worlc 011 Afonday nnless' the dispufes are settled.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 October 1946, Page 5
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