THE SYDNEY STRIKE.
FURTHER COMPLICATIONS. SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENTS. United Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY, April 13. There are new developments in connection with the strike. The seamen of the Ulawarra and Newcastle Companies refused to work with non-un-ionists, and l left the vessels. SYDNEY, April 14. The strike has been settled. The Seamen’s Union agreed to coastal shipowners having a month to arrange for all non-unionists crews being brought together into six steamers. In the meantime unionists and non-unionists work together in tlie vessels.
.Trouble -also cropped up at Newcastle. Thirty-three out of 38 nonunionists employed' on the NewcastleHunter River Company struck, on the ground that under the new agreement they will 1 be paid casual rates, instead of weekly wages. Eleven returned to work, and the places of others were filled ,by unionists.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2166, 15 April 1908, Page 3
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131THE SYDNEY STRIKE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2166, 15 April 1908, Page 3
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