SHIPPING STRIKE
ON ENTIRE QUEENSLAND ' COAST MAY EXTEND TO OTHER STATES" By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received May ll;'o.'s"p.m.) r '■■ " " May 10. The influenza" Yfsital'ion 'tfas ■ fejf biigKF shipping trouble, .has ,^ee.n.,lp:e l jr-, ing for some time, to a head. At the time of the New Zealand visitation, the crews manning vessels trading to infected ports were granted special rates. Owing to the shipping companies refusing to concede thesenrates, r the Queensland branch of the Federated Seamen's Union have declareda strike on the wholo of the Q,ueen-,-land coast. Appeals are . made tor' support from the southern' States. It is feared here< and in other. States that the trouble will extend throughout Australia, as unrest amongst the seamen is general. The strike has rendered idle a number of intercolonial~ however, ; will bo allowed to return tu home ports. . ,■■ ...',
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10277, 12 May 1919, Page 5
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136SHIPPING STRIKE New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10277, 12 May 1919, Page 5
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