WHARF DISPUTES IN AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY, Sept .21
As the Stevedoring Industry Commission was preparing to discuss “the widespread lack of discipline” on the Australian waterfronts, the watersiders walked out in Sydney yesterday. On Friday 161 men working on the freighters Horoata, Rhodesia Star and Clan McDougall asked for 12 men to a gang in the holds to handle single-dumped wool. The port committee ruled in favour of 10 men to a gang. On Monday 1150 watersiders heard an address by the Sydney branch president of the Waterside Workers Federation (Mr J. Y-oungv and then refused to answer calls. Oyer 1400 men have been suspended till Wednesday for refusing to answer calls. At Port Pirie the watersiders are refusing work until they are paid a bonus of Is 9d an hour for loading lead. „ , . At Fremantle the waterfront is idle because the watersiders are out in sympathy over a demarcation dispute between the clerks.
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Grey River Argus, 22 September 1948, Page 3
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