WATERSIDE TROUBLE
MILITANT ATTITUDE IN SYDNEY. MELBOURNE OPINION TEMPERATE. (Received Nov. 2, 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 1. In connection with tho waterfront trouble, a large meeting of the Waterside Workers’ Federation yesterday resolved that no member of tho Federation work on any ship or wharf after live in the evening until all members of the Federation are employed throughout Australia and that all members working through the bureau bo withdrawn and take their places at the. dock gates with members. The resolution operates from to-morrow.
MELBOURNE, Nov. 1
Meetings of the wharf laborers and stevedores discussed the Sydney proposal for a waterfront strike. The union officials urged that tho proposal would result in a general upheaval and they' did not want to invite a repetition of tho 1917 defeat. There was a good deal of dissent from this attitude but, finally, it was resolved that the time would not be ripe for a strike-, until all constitutional methods of reaching an adjustment bad been exhausted. —G.P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9852, 3 November 1924, Page 5
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