AUSTRALIA'S LABOUR WORRIES
Received Monday, 7.40 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 3. The habit of direct action is spread- , ing in Australia. in Darwiu moic tlian 100 fyll blooded aborigincs cm-. ployed as domestics and general helpers in homes and by Government departments, struck this moming. They demand more pay and the reinstatemeut of the superintendent of the compound who resigned during the veek-end. - '-Sydney mental- asylum attendants are lioldiiig stop-worlc meetings a-t all asyluins today to discuss the failuret of the Minister of Health, Mr. Kelly, to receive a dcputatioii protestijig against hospital conditions. A mass meeting of men involved in the dockyards hold-up in Sydney, deeided today to return to work 011 terms offered by the employers at a conference on Friday. A report of ihe deeision will be made to the New South Wales Labour Council. Mr. J. D. Keimy said that' an Overwhelniing vote of the meeting indicated that the disputes cominittee would accept ihe terms also. A plau to extend the Jispute to land metal shops has thus been averted. The hold-up, which developed in a lockout, 011 November 27, coninienced with a strike of crane drivers at Mort 's doclc.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 February 1947, Page 5
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