SEAMEN JOIN STRIKERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 478, 6 October 1928, Page 1

SEAMEN JOIN STRIKERS

SIX HUNDRED CEASE WORK WOULD NOT WORK WITH VOLUNTEERS (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. Noon. MELBOURNE, To-day. SIX HUNDRED seamen from 14 inter-State vessels struck, refusing to work with the volunteers. More than 3,000 volunteers have been enrolled on the Melbourne wharves, and 1,500 are working.

Further acts of violence are reported, the strikers hurling blue metal ■when the volunteers were leaving the Nestor. A fierce fight ensued. The volunteers, however, stood their ground, only one of their number being seriously injured and sent to hospital. The Trades Union Council continues its conference, in spite of the result of the meeting with the Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, and the employers’ declaration that obedience to the law must precede a conference between the parties. Precautions were taken to preserve Becrecy of the conference’s deliberations. The supporters of Mr. Jock Garden are believed to be losing ground, owing to a suspicion that their activities are aimed at damage to the party’s political standing. In the Arbitration Court Chief

Judge Dethridge, in refusing to suspend the preference clauses in the new award for North Queensland ports, advised the waterside workers to “Work, work; do not play the fool.” PEACE AT ADELAIDE At Adelaide the waterside workers resumed work yesterday under the new award. The ship-owners agreed that members of the unions and volunteers should in future be engaged at separate depots. Nearly 600 members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation were picked up yesterday, but they had to wait the exhaustion of the supply of free labour before they were engaged. About 1,000 of them remained unemployed. They bombarded the president of the unnion, Mr. Whitfield, with complaints. His reply was that the men who were left comprised the Bolshevik element.