GOVERNMENT INTERVENES ON WATERFRONT
Received Friday, 8.50 p.m. • , . SYDNFY, Jan. 31. Gove.rmn.ent intervention in the threatened waterfront strike which, tinless averted, is expected to paralyse all Australian ports next week, was anI nounced from Canberra today. Mr. 1 Chifley has asked the Minister of ■ Shipping and Supply, Senator Ashley, 1 to confer with the interested parties : in Sydney today. When Mr. Chifley and Mr. J. Ilealy, general secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation,,discussed the watersiders" demands recentlv, ,Mr. Chifley adiiii'tted that the watersijders j*had the cokntry almost at ^their mjercy nbeeauS'e a quick turharound'*of" shipping vas the paramount need at the present.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 February 1947, Page 2
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