SUGAR STRIKE
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.
SERIOUS DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED.
AWAITING DECISION OF CONFERENCE.
(Received Last Night, 10.15 o'clock.)
SYDNEY, August 8. The Trolley and Draymen's Union, ha® decided inot to handle the soigar, which has, be-iean landed from the Aramic, and which is stacked on the wtbarf. More serious developments are expi&cfted, wfen tte Mintbro arrives to-morrow with 2000 tons of ksatgatr. Tho secretary of the Wharf Labourer si' Union 'States that a® the Mantaro's cargo was loaded by nonUiniio<nii.sfts<, noni& of ,tih© waterside workers will handle it, and it would be smpoisisii/ble for the- Sugar Com pan--i:es. to handle .swili a large quantity witlh the aid of clerks and istevedoreis. An emergency conference of delegates from the various Unions imt<ereis*9d .discussed .tin© situation, and resolved to await the decision of the Confe>re.nco meeting ,at Brisbane tomorrow, before formulating any plan of campaign. Tib© Sydney Labour Council has forwarded a further £3OO to the Bvisba.no sitriikeris' fund.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19110809.2.28.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10309, 9 August 1911, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
161SUGAR STRIKE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10309, 9 August 1911, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in