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♦ ■ — WATERSIDERS IN SYDNEY SOLDIERS SETTING NEW PACE IN CARGO HANDLING. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT STANDS FIRM. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) SYDNEY, April 1. About 2500 troops are now engaged in unloading ships at the Sydney wharves. The watersiders persist in their refusal to work under the gang system devised by the Stevedoring Industry Commission. Feeling between soldiers and wharf labourers was friendly. Observers estimated that service men on Wednesday shifted 50 per cent more cargo than is usually moved by an equivalent number of wharf labourers in the same time. It is understood that the men’s deputation sent to Canberra was told by the Prime Minister, Mr Curtin, and other Ministers that the gang system was necessary for the swift handling of cargoes, and that the Government had no intention of changing its mind on this matter. Ministers undertook to ask the Stevedoring Commission to give prompt consideration to any suggestions made by the Watersiders’ Federation for modifications and improvements of the gang system, provided they did not interfere with the speedier handling of cargoes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1943, Page 5
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