SHIPPING STRIKE
MOST OF STEAMERS * HELD UP--r-'-".r-
MANY THOUSANDS OF UNEM> '"""""""i'LOYED.
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-,Z&lqs%- oftrihe* inter-State. and- coastal • 11 _ ateamers are now laid up, and many •" thousands are unemployed.
In the_Noithera district 5000 coalminers are idle. It is estimated that there are 50,000; tons of -cargb ori the waterfront awaiting shipment to inter-State ports.
MOUNTED POLICE PROTECT _„._■.■: ..,.;..LOYALISTS. - from work we»UsjiDjecicd.; to'- a hostile demonstration by strikers, whom the mounted police dispersed. . ~ '
OTFJSRJO,„RETURNFJ) SOLDIERS..,. MELBOURNE. May 2V. The Minister for Agriculture announced that, as the result of intimida-.-; tion by unionists, the loyalists liave-v | left the, Brooklyn wheat stacks. It was, i therefore, decided to pay oft all union- ' ists and offer the work to returned soldiers. Mr W. A. Watt A Acting-Prime,, Min,-. 'ister/h'aV refused to "allow the Queensland Government _to charter vessels to strike., situations., , SHIPPING CONFERENCEi' PLEBISCITE ON~MANNING OF ! SHIPS. By' ( TcleL'TMJ'li'T-PreM Assoclation—Copyright "'" (Received May 29, 10.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Muy..J{3...... " The' sliippirig" conference decided to take a,," plebiscite of employees regarding ftie manning oi ships. All other matters in dispute are referred to the. Arbitration Court. The conference adjourned till* June-GIU, when it is hof. i.l_* the result s of the' ballot will be u\a.i----able.-; .'.^v;'.:.'. * ', . '•■'. \
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10293, 30 May 1919, Page 5
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203SHIPPING STRIKE New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10293, 30 May 1919, Page 5
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