SEAMEN’S MEETING
DEFEAT STRIKE MOTION. (Australian Press Association.) < SYDNEY, April 29. What was probably th e largest meeting of the Seamens Union ever held in Sydney defeated a motion aiming at a general strike. Determined efforts were made by avowed Communists to have the strike motion carried, hut when the genuine seamen saw some socalled mariners, who wanted shins tied up and had never been to sea in their lives that settled the matter. ANOTHER STRIKE. REFUSAL TO PAY LEVY. SYDNEY. April 29. The refusal of a miner to pay sixpence as an instalment towards a three shillings levy struck by the Miners Lodge for expenses of May Day celebrations, has thrown Stockton Bore hole colliery idle for an indefinite period. Four hundred strikers decided not to work with the man concerned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1931, Page 5
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132SEAMEN’S MEETING Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1931, Page 5
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