WATERSIDERS’ SOVIET.
A CORK SENSATION. OFFICES SEIZED. By Telegraph.-—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Sept. 3. The secretary and members of the Transport Workers’ Union, at Cork, who are striking against the Harbor Board for higher wages, to-day seized the offices, ejected the commissioners and began the collecting of harbor dues, declaring their intention of suing for money to pay the men. The Red flag was flown over the offices. SHORT LIVED AUTHORITY. REGARDED AS GILBERTIAN. DISPUTE TO BE ARBITRATED. The Harbor Workers’ Soviet formed at Cork proved short-lived. Most of the subordinate harbor board employees regarded the seizure of the offices as Gilbertian, and, in spirit of jest, offered to carry on under Soviet control. The Dail Eireann Ministry of Labor intervened, resulting in the strikers consenting to submit the dispute to an arbitration board representing the parties equally, the Dail Eireann nominating the chairman. The Daily Telegraph’s Cork correspondent. states that the public are predominantly against the strikers, principally because their action is regarded as treachery to Sinn Fein.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1921, Page 5
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170WATERSIDERS’ SOVIET. Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1921, Page 5
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