THE SYDNEY STRIKE
_/ • ' tt HE CITY QUIET, BUT WORK AT A STANDSTILL. By Telegraph—Press AssociationWanganui, August SO. The "Herald" has received intormation Showing that tho stories going Toand about the strike in Australia are moonshine, and that a little over a week ago Sydney was quiet,. though the strike had reached immense proportions, and work .Wis at a standstill. ' No trams wore running, and the train Services were out to tho absolute minimum. ■ Tho Government had comman 7 Beered every availablo vehicle £or traffic purposes. , . Strike processions, beaded by bands, flaily paraded tho streets, and proceedings were on tho whole orderly. Sydney ;was desolate looking, and at night there Was very little lighting. Plenty of volunteers ivero available to the places of) strikers. Both sides ,'fippearsd firm. ■ The seamen had joined jtlio strikers, and the whole of tho transport workers were now' out. Five thousand special constables and volunteers Iwero camped on the Sydney Cricket Ground. The opinion was expressed that the fetrike would be crushed.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3178, 31 August 1917, Page 5
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166THE SYDNEY STRIKE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3178, 31 August 1917, Page 5
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