SYDNEY WHARF STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 106, 25 October 1911, Page 5

SYDNEY WHARF STRIKE.

SYDNEY TREATED AS NONEXISTENT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, October 24. The inter-State companies are practically treating Sydney as non-existent so far as freights are concerned, and maintaining the passenger service only. The crews, assisted by clerks and other permanent hands, are loading and unloading the perishable portions of cargoes. Some coastal vessels returned without unloading the large quantities of dairy produce which were included in their cargoes. According to the Herald, the waterside workers' conference at Melbourne on Saturday ordered the strikers to resume work, but the Sydney Wharf Laborers' Union ignored the order. This allegedly caused friction amongst the strike leaders.

The labor troubles have spread to the islands. The steamer Gennania reports difficulty in obtaining loading in the Marshall Islands, owing to native wharf laborers demanding an increase of from two to three marks daily. The attempt to secure other labor failed, and the cargo was eventually shipped by the help of prisoners and native pelice. LOADING THE MOERAKI. Received 24, f1.55 p.m. Sydney, October 24. The Moeraki sailed at one o'clock. No wharf laborers turned up to work her. The company's permanent hands, and office clerks commenced transferring the mails, and the passengers' luggage was quickly aboard. They then started handling the general cargo, meeting with difficulty in the handling of the horses, of which there were eighty, but workis proceeding. Laborers presented themselves for work to-day, but there was no explanation of yesterday's refusal to work. Otherwise the position is unchanged. A mass meeting is being held to-night to consider the position. A BIG MEETING. CRISIS EXPECTED TO-DAY. Received 24, 12.30 a.m. Sydney, October 24. There was an important development in the strike at to-night's mass meeting in the Trades Hall, when the huge crowd which attended was too big to pack into the hall. It was decided to adjourn till to-morrow afternoon, when the meeting will bo in the basement of the Town Hall.

The deep sea wharf laborers announced their intention of stopping work in the afternoon to enable members to attend the meeting, at which the ijiiestion of extending; the strike to all wharf laborers will be discussed. The union received telegrams from Mr. Hughes end Mr. Justice Tliggins strongly advising (he men to return to work. To-morrow's meeting will be the crisis. THE MELBOURNE CONFERENCE. Received -24, !).:,,-> p.m. Melbourne, October 24. The conference met and adjourned till tomorrow to enable certain suggestions to be submitted to a meeting of the