OVERTIME STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 277, 23 November 1927, Page 7

OVERTIME STRIKE.

Workers Consider They Have

Three Complaints.

TROUBLE GROWING. (Received 11 .TO a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. As a result of the overtime strike several oversea steamers are delayed at Sydney. In the inter-State trade a number of firms have been compelled to limit the space allotted to cargo.

The Melbourne Waterside Workers' Federation claims there are now three disputes involved ill the overtime strike. Exception is taken because Judge Beebv refused to hear the claims of the federation. The second is that the dispute has arisen owing to the demands of the Tasmanian members that they were entitled to work the loading and unloading of cargo at certain ports, which has not been acceded to and the third dispute has arisen, it is stated, in West Australia between the federation and the Australian Workers' Union, because, it is claimed, members of the Australian Workers' Union were performing the work which belonged to the Watersiders' Federation.

When the Maloja from London arrived at Fremantle the wharf labourers unloaded the mails but refused to woik the cargo after five o'clock,'resulting in a delay of several hours in the vessel's departure for eastern States.

FUNERAL FATALITY.

COLLAPSE OF A BRIDGE. (Received 12.30 p.m.) MADRID, November 22. An extraordinary incident occurred during the funeral of a Socialist leader, Jose Glesias, whom Communists mur dered. The river bridge at Jalon collapsed, precipitating the hearse and coffin and 100 mourners into the river. The latter have been rescued, 37 being injured.

CITY COUNCIL BILL.

CARRIED IN STORMY SCENE. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Amid stormy scenes and fierce opposition from the Labourites the Assembly carried the second reading by 45 to 40 votes of the bill for replacing the Sydney City Council by the appointment of a ' Commission.