GREAT STRUGGLE.
QUEENSLAND STRIKE.
Both Sidestepping Beady For
Fight.
MAILS BY MOTOR TRAHBPOBT.
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BRISBANE, thb <Uy.
* Preparations are being made in Queensland by both the Government and the Railway Union for a great industrial straggle. A conference of the union and sugar mill representatives will consider the Board of Trade's proposals for a settlement to-day.
In the meantime many jalhraymaa are the re-employment farm issued by the Railway
Then Is a possibility that a partial railway terries will be instituted on Man* day.
A manifesto urging the raQwaymen not to accept re-employment individually has been issued by the Australian Workers' Railways and Engineering Unions. The engine drivers, firemen's, shunters and guards unions have not joined in this manifesto.
Arrangements have been made for the delivery of mails by motor transport.
There has been a general exodus of people returning to their homes before the railways stop running. Many people are also returning to Brisbane in a hurry.
One report states that the negotiations for a settlement, started by the Board of Trade and Arbitration, hare failed.
GREAT STRUGGLE.
Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 208, 3 September 1927, Page 9
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