THE SUGAR STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1201, 9 August 1911, Page 5

THE SUGAR STRIKE.

SERIOUS DEVELOPMENTS. By Telcirraph—i'ress Association—Copyrieli' (Rec- August 8, 10.15 p.m.) Sydney, August 8. The Trolly and Draymen's Union has decided not to handle the non-union sugar landed from the--'-Aramac. The sugar remains stacked on the wharf. Moro eerious developments aro expected when the Mintaro arrives to-morrow with a cargo of two. thousand tons of Queensland sugar. The secretary of the Wharf Labourers' Union states that as the Mintaro's sugar was loaded by non-unionists, none of tho waterside workers will handle it, and ii is impossible for the / Sugar Company to land such a largo quantity by tho aid of clerks and stevedores.

~: An emergency conference,, of delegates from . tho various unions interested discussed tho .situation, and resolved to awa't the decision of tho conference'meeting at Brisbane to-morrow before formulating a plan of campaign.

The Sydney Labour Council has forwarded a further .£3OO to the Brisbane strikers' fund.

A NEW COMPLICATION. Sydney, August 8. • Late yesternight tho Colonial Sugar Company unloaded the Aramac's sugar with non-union labour. ■ Trouble is now threatened with the stbremen. Since the Queensland trouble most of the men employed in the Sugar Company's works have organised into the Storemen's Union. THE POSITION OMINOUS. (Eec. August 0, 0.30 a.m.) Sydney, August 8. The waterside workers are determinad not to handle non-union sugar. Tho sugar company is equally determined to bring sugar to the southern ports, and the position is considered ominous. A Brisbane telegram reports that tho steamer Mintaro , has put back there with, her sugar cargo, after being nineteen hours out on the voyage to Sydney,