SYDNEY WHARVES NOW IDLE

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5301, 14 January 1947, Page 5

SYDNEY WHARVES NOW IDLE

(Press Assn-

r shortages looming i'ROUBLE IN WORKING BARQUE PAMIR 1

-Rec. 9.30 p.m.)

SYDNEY, Jan. 13. Sixteen ships were aftected at Sydney to-day when watersiders refused to answer calls. The -h'-ld up is due to the dispute on the numbers to work in each hold on the New Zealand barque Pemir, unloading timber. The threat to inter-State shipping is giowing. An other potato shortage is looming with the stopbb.ge of work on a ship carrying vegetables. After exhausting tlieir stocks, butchers in Woollongong to-day jrined butehers of Sydney and Newcastle in closing their shops as a protest against price eontrols. The abbatoirs at Homebush have asked the Government to take over key shops in order to get meat to the public. The demand for poultry, •abbit and eooked rneats is very haavy, but retailers say supplies are adequate. Gas Workers Still Out It is stated unofficially that the Fuderal Council of Gas Employees'

Union rejected the reeommendation of the Australasian Council of Trade Unions that work should be resumed ' ecause of the opposition of the New South Wales and South Australian •; elegates to any scheme which did not include donble tinre for Suiulay -hif t work. The Victorian and Tasmanian deler.ates are convinced that the employns cannot be moved and favour a resumption (.-f work in return for paynent of time and a half for Satur'ay work and reference of other b.ims to the Arbitration Court. Taxi drivers boycotted the central railway station to-day as a protest against the ban on multiple hiring. A similar boycott last week re•ulted in the enforcement heing de•ayed but, the authorities are determined this time to carry it through. MI taxis are expected to be suspend"d on Wednesday, when a stop work meeting is to be held.