BRISBANE STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10575, 5 March 1912, Page 5

BRISBANE STRIKE

CABLBNEWS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.)

ENGINEERS PREPARED TO RESUME ATTITUDE OF WHARF LABOURERS. ((Received March 4, 10 a.m.) BRISBANE, March 4.

A vote of the Amalgamated Engineers' Society favoured re-starting work to-day. The Carters' Union at Maryborough struck because the masters declined to reinstate a number of men who had been paid off. The waterside workers have decided not to handle cargo because it would afterwards be worked by nonunion carters.

WHARF LABOURERS. SPRING A SURPRISE. WORK ON WHARVES SUSPENDED. .(ißeceived Last Night, 8.55 o'clock.) SYDtNEY, March 4. The wharf labourers engaged in loading wheat ships at Darling Island sprung a surprise on the German steamer Schlesien, which arrived from Brisbane at the end of the week to load wheat. The wharf labourer v declined to work her, because a portion of her cargo was loaded by Queensland free labour. To-day the crew started to put the wheat aboard, and immediately all the labourers engaged in loading other ships at the Island knocked off, with a large numhtr of other hands. Altogether about 100 men are out, and five vessels are affected. Five hundred trucks of •wheat are waiting to be unloaded. At a meeting held later in the day, the wharf labourers decided to resume in the morning, excepting on the Schlesien and Prince Waldemar. The latter is "blocked" because it has utilised its crew in loading. CONDITIONS OF RESUMPTION. FURTHER ASSU/RANCEB ASKED . FOR. NO VICTIMISATION INTENDED.

(Received •Last Night, 9.45 o'clock.)

BRISBANE, March i

The strikers' committee has again written to the Employers' Federation asking for a further assurance that there will be no victimisation, in the event of the Committee ordering all the workers back. The Federation has replied that there is nothing to add to the previous assurance, _ and disclaimed any intention to victimise ?r permit victimisation,