CARGO CLUTTERS WHARVES
(Presh Assn.—
australian hold-up CONTINUED REFUSAL OF NIGHT WORK
-Rec. 9jS0 p.m.)
SYDNEY, Feb. 9, . About 500,000 tons of cargo is held up on the wharves throughout Australia and this bank-up will quickly increase unless watersiders lift their ban on night work, said a high Commonwealth official. The dispute would result in the F'ederal Government suffering heavy financial loss. Because of the hold-up of coke, steel and crude ores, heavy industries would close down and many men would: lose their jobs, he added. The official said that the eargo held up included about 160,000 tons of sugar, 50, '000 tons of timher and •building materials, 1100,000 tons of wheat hp Western Australia, and a large quantity of potatoes\ and other perishahle goods.
"Even when the waterfront wovked 20 hours a day, there was a permanent accumulation of nearly 200,000 tons of cargo whieh the men could not handle,"he added. "The shipping* industry is unable to carry on if the watersideA work only eight -hours a day." The Federal Government owns 20 ships, and haB*~chartered about 00 A^jstralian-owned ships. These ships are being forced to s'tay in port twiee the normal time for loading and unloading. Since Tuesday the Stevedoring Industry Commission has suspended about 2000 watersiders in Sydney for refusing night work. The President of the Sydney branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation, Mr. W. Coaihlan, said that in spite of the suspension, the men who had not 'been suspended would continue to offer and accept day work. They would not work after 5 p.m.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5324, 10 February 1947, Page 5
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