WATERSIDE STRIKE

Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1928, Page 6

WATERSIDE STRIKE

EXTENSION PROPOSALS. (Australian Press Association). MELBOURNE, Oct. 11. Though rebuffed by the drivers’ and carters’ refusal to join the strike, the militants of the \\aterskiers’ Council of Action are endeavouring to extend the dispute to the raihvaynieu and other organisations, including the tugboat men.

. A motion declaring the Victoria (Dock black is expected to b,e carried at the afternoon meeting, to which the railwavriien’s representatives have been invited. The railway men are at present handling trie goods discharged on the wharves by volunteer workers. 1 An. attempt was made to interfere ■with the carters at Port Melbourne, bales of woul being dumped from lorries by strikers. The drivers managed to get them reloaded, amidst jeers from the crowd. Tiie arrival of the police prevented further molestation.

SHIPOWNERS’ WAITING GAME MELBOURNE, Oct. 11. The shipowners are anxious to recommission ' the coastal vessels, but they will not decide until the attitude of the seamen at, all the ports has been defined. ■ Men holding good discharges, but not members of the Australian Seamen’s Union, have offered to man the ’ships. QUEENSLAND DEMANDS. BRISBANE, Oct. 11. A mass meeting of the watevsiders and seamen to-day adopted a resolution demanding that the Australasian Council of Trades -Unions and this Combined Unions’ Executive call upon all the Union water-skiers throughout Australia to cease work. The meeting also passed a resolution that the overseas seamen be called out, and that billeting be arranged for them. VICTORIAN SEAMEN’S STAND MELBOURNE, Oct. 11. The Victorian seamen at the meeting to-day decided to refuse to man any ships.