SHIPPING TROUBLE
CALL FOR VOLUNTEER CREWS. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 30. The inter-State steamship owners having decided to call for volunteer crews, sent a telegram to the Prime Minsiter to-night, asking whether he will honour his undertaking to afford protection for those who respond. Advice was received from Adelaide last night that Union crews had been provided for the Karoola and also for the freighter Goulburn. The strike is now practically confined to Sydney and Newcastle ports. SUPPORT FOR STRIKERS. SYDNEY.. October 30. A thousand delegates of Trades Unions, political and industrial wings, tonight decided to support the seamen in a. general strike and providing pickets, and refusing to handle cargo and reorganising the workers defence corps in order to combat the New Guard.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1931, Page 6
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