Ultimatum To Heads Of Waterside Workers
Reeeived Tuesday, 10.30 p.m. SYDNEY, May 10. The Minister of Shipping, Senator Ashley, has given the Waterside Workers' Pederal Council until noon fomorrow to forward "unqualified assurances" from Mr. J. Healy, general secretary of the Waterside Workers' Eederation, and Mr. E. Roaeh, assistant general secretary1, that they will cooperate with the Stevedoring Commission. Senator Ashley said that if undertaldngs were not reeeived, he would reeommend to the Federal Cabinet that "prompt effect" be given to Mr. Justice Kirby's recommendation that Healy and Roaeh be removed from the Stevedoring Commission. Last month the Judge gave Healy and Roaeh until yesterday to assure him. they would, in future, cooperate with the commission and obey its deeisions. The Judge took this action after they had defied the commission by supporting the protest strike against the gaoling of L. J. McPhillips, Communist assistant general secretary of the Ironworkers' Pederation.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 May 1949, Page 3
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