WATERSIDE STRIKE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1928, Page 5

WATERSIDE STRIKE

SYDNEY WATER-SIDERS. DIVIDED AS 'TO ATTITUDE. (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY, Oct. 10. A meeting was held at the Waterside?' Workers’ Federation at Sydney to-day. It was marked by exciting moments. The feeling ran high as between those favouring the .extension of the waterside trouble and those contending that the Sydney men should continue to work all vessels.' It is understod that the > furniture of the meeting hall was roughly handled. The men dispersed in disorder. UNIONS DISINCLINED TO STPIKE. - MELBOURNE, Oct. 10. Plans being made by the Central Strike Committee to withdraw the members of the Engine Drivers’ and Firemen’s Association from tugboats and lighters are unlikely to succeed as these men are already opposed to a strike. The carters, meet 'to-night, but it is believed that they, instead of resolving to join the strike instantly, will instead demand that the watersiders should first take a secret ballot of their own members to see if they really favour continuing wlxat is regarded as a hopeless strike.

FEAR OF BOMBS, MELBOURNE, Oct. 10. The train service from the city to Port Melbourne ' was suspended for nearly two hours late last night, owing to reports of bomb outrages being planned against . trains carrying free wharf workers. The police and railway authorities guarded the line carefully. A thorough search revealed nothing sinister. Theatre patrons and others going home towards midnight when the trains resumed, travelled with uneasy minds and tense nerves. The line was strongly guarded all night.