Men Who Marched On Court Suspended

Chronicle (Levin), 3 August 1949, Page 5

Men Who Marched On Court Suspended

Received Wednesday, 10.45 a.m. SYDNEY, August 3. The newly constituted Stevedoring Industry Board has suspended for three days 4097 waterside workers who ceased work at noon yesterday and marched on the . Arbitration Court. The board has also lodged an application in the Arbitration Court for the suspension of the a'ttendance money and annual leave credits of all watersiders who take pare in illegal stoppages. An early hearing of this application is expected. Twelve demonstrators will appear before the court. They were bailed out by .a man with a large bag of banknotes after the magistrate had remanded them to appear in a fortnight. The man with the bag described himself as "a successful punter who saw that the boys were in trouble." He added that he knew v.here the missing funds of the Waterside • Workers' Federation were, but said, "They can't touch me." This man also bailed out several men charged yesterday with offensive behaviour during the weekend meetings. The Waterside Workers' Federation intends to appeal against the suspensions. Tne Australian Stevedoring Industry Board was appointed recently to replace the Stevedoring Industry Commission, which collapsed when the Waterside Workers' Federation delegates, Messrs. J. Healy and E. Roach, refused to give guarantees that they would refrain from inciting the watersiders to go against the directions of the commission.