20,000 QUEENSLAND MEN RETURN TO WORK
BRISBANE, April 6. Over 20.000 railwaymen. watersiders and seamen returned to work-to-day, exactly nine weeks since the paralysing Queensland strike began. The order by the Disputes Committee ends what is described as the “most disastrous and futile strike Australia has experienced in a generation.” Two American freighters, which berthed to-day are the first overseas ships to enter a Queensland port since the watersiders struck March 1. Other Australian States are still threatened with a sugar shortage as a result of the strike.
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Grey River Argus, 7 April 1948, Page 5
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