PIG IRON FOR JAPAN
AUSTRALIAN DISPUTE
SUPPORT FOR WATERSIDERS
I SYDNEY, December 4.
Delegates from seventeen unions, meeting at Woollongong today, decided to support the watersiders'. ban on the loading of pig iron on the steamer Dalfram for Japan, and to defy the Federal Government's threat to impose a licensing scheme at Port Kembla.
The crew of the Dalfram assured the meeting that they would refuse to take the vessel to sea if the iron were loaded. The meeting' decided that if non-unionists were employed to load pig iron on any vessels those vessels would be refused repairs in "all Australian dockyards.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 9
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102PIG IRON FOR JAPAN Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 9
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