WHARF CONGESTION AND MANY IDLE SHIPS
^ " * Received Wednesday, 10 p.m. SYDXEY, April 2. With a daily maupower shortage on the waterfront of betweeu 3000 and 40U0 nien, vessels are still lying idle at* Sydney. Shippers feel "that the entry of 500 additional men to the Waterside Workers' Federation will be too slow to help clear the existing accumulation of cargoes. It is thoughl that the watersiders ' executive may wait months before finally approving of the new men. The port is still so eongested that some ships havo to anchor in the stream.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 April 1947, Page 5
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