QUEENSLAND STRIKE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 143, 30 March 1948, Page 3

QUEENSLAND STRIKE

EFFORTS TO PREVENT COLLAPSE (Rec. 11.5 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day, Communist leaders are noAv making feverish efforts to prevent the early collapse of the Queensland rail and port strike. Rumours that it Avill end this week are widely current. They are based on the knowledge that back-to-worlc proposals will be submitted _by members of several striking unions at a meeting throughout the State to-day, and the Avhole strike position Avill be revieAved. by the-central disputes committee t.o-morroAV. Thirty Brisbane members ol the Electrical Trades Union signed a petition for a general meeting of members to decide whether they will go back to work. The spokesman for the moderate section in the Carpenters’ Union saici that a registered letter had been sent to the Communist secretary of the union containing a notice of motion of no-confidence in the executive. The State secretary of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, Mr E. C. Englart, stated that whatever the railAvaymen do, the Avatersiders and seamen will stay out until the Hanlon Government repeals the strike-break-ing legislation.