STRIKE THREATENED

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1930, Page 6

STRIKE THREATENED

ON AUSTRALIAN ’WATERFRONTS.' (Australian Press Association.! '^.^ u MELBOURNE, 'September 2A;G; The dispute .on the Port AclelaMe waterfront owing to the action Af ||re shipowners in insisting.on the MSd ment of men who volunteered to/. at the time of the last. watetsiders strike has spread to Melbourne, where the - seamen . contend •. that, tl\g owners refuse to recognise theiij arid to rectify, their giievaucesX..;,'';j The Seamen's Union has as.ketl, the Waterside Federation to join theip a general maritime strike; for the' dress of heir combined grievances',' suggesting that the wheat and wool shipments should not he to leave Australia. The- Executive of the Waterside Federation, however, discountenance a strike. They have asked Pfeilii6r ¥fogan at Victoria for a round-table 1 coniference to deal- with the trouble. The Waterside Federation to-day the general strike proposal. Its inembers, however, have been instructed not to work with non-unionists. . T/ Efforts are to be made' to induce!, the South Australian Government to' mediate on hehnlf of the fellow unionists in that-State. ( Police protection was afforded; ,tn, free labourers at the South Melbourne wharves to-day in order to prevent a repetition of yesterday’s rioting. It had the desired effect, work on all vessels proceeding smoothly. >sm.