NEW SOUTH WALES STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3155, 6 August 1917, Page 5

NEW SOUTH WALES STRIKE

GENERAL DISLOCATION OF TRAFFIC DEVELOPING INDUSTRIES SERIOUSLY AFFECTED GOVERNMENT TAKES A FIRM STAND (Kcc. August '5, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, August 5. The strike is gradually' developing towards a general uisloeauou of tlio traffic. The Onions' Defeuco Committee has declared all coal lor railway and tramway •services black. This will' possibly causo a complete stoppage. . The locomotive drivers, firemen, aad cleaners have decided in favour of a strike, while other organisations are. heatedly debating the situation. The stoppage of the tramways is affecting outside industries. Several of the south coast mines are idle, and many men have been stood off at the Walsh Island dockyards. There wero no trains this morning, and only a very limited service, tor a few hours iu the afternoon.' The Government refuses to listen to the men's proposals "until the latter deckle to return to work.—Press Assn. RAILWAY GOODS SERVICE CANCEIiED. Sydney, August i. The Railway Commissioners have cancelled the whole goods sWvico.—Press Association. . - , LABOUR SITUATION DISCUSSED IN FEDERAL HOUSE PARASITIC PESTS OP AGITATORS. Melbourne, August *• At tho House of Representatives the icrowd was again prevented by the police from forcing an entry. VV. M. Hughes, speakiag to Mr. Sudor's motion for the adjournment of the flouso to discuss the unemployed question, said that hardly a day passed without the stoppage of work on some wharf, caused by parasites of the unions. : Mr. Joseph Cook said that, tho rc-alow policy adopted by the unions was rcsponesiblo for uneniployuient.—Press Association. -