GENERAL STRIKE IN NEW SOUTH WALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3153, 3 August 1917, Page 5

GENERAL STRIKE IN NEW SOUTH WALES

I SERIOUS LABOUR CRISIS CABINET DISCUSSING THE PROBLEM Sydney, August 2. A. general strike is threatened on the railways and tramways owing to the Government' refusing to .abolish the recently inaugurated card system .ofLtim-; in"- work. Unless there is a settlement of" the trouble to-day thirty thousand: men will be rendered idle.—Press Assn. ■ FIEST phase begun, ■ / (Eec. August 2, 5.5 p.m.) ■ - , . ; Sydnty. August 2. .'. The first phase of the strike has begun. Thirteen hundred men at the Eandiuck 'tramway"workshops■ are. out. \ Cabinet is considering- the; crisis.—Press Assn. . STRIKE EAPiDLY SPBEADING. ; (Eec. August 2, 9.50 p.m.) I Sydney, August 2. \ . The. strike is. rapidly spreading.ln . addition to tho Itandwick stake three thousand men have uowneff tools_ at the Eveleigh and Clyde workshops. Ihe Tauivay train services haw been rednced, ahd race excursion- traffio hue been sufr- • pe'nded. The engineers at JimvcastleW affected, and sis hundred; are'idle. Thus may affect tho coal traffic. Both sides are determined to fight to a finish. Pre6S 'Assn. . ' i . HEWED MEETING OP THE UNIONS. (Eec. August 3, 1.20 a.m.) ; , Sydney, August 2. At a meeting of unions concerned in tho dispute speakers heatedly debated the question of a genoral. stoppage railway and tramway, services. The mod- ; erate element prevailed, and the meeting adjourned till to-morrow. Meanwhile, I eociation. . ,