COLLAPSED.
AUSTRALIAN STRIKE.
Watersiders Rush To License
Under New Act.
SOME REFUSED WORK.
(Received 12 noon.)
MELBOURNE, this day.
Nearly 600 members of the Melbourne branch of the Waterside Workers' Union yesterday applied for work, but none of them was engaged. Volunteer workers were given the preference and continued to load the vessels in port.
The volunteers were jeered at by the unionists, but the police dispersed the latter.
The president of the Stevedores' Association in declaring the strike off, said there were too many mediocre men in leading positions who cannot estimate the danger of the Transport Act to unionism.
The Port Philip stevedores took a secret ballot, after which they decided to Applj f° r licenses and to resume work.
At Brisbane the waterside workers held a mass meeting at which they called the strike off. They then marched jn a body to take out licenses.
At Innisfail, Queensland, the local branch of the waterside workers decided to work under the new award and are now securing licenses.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 9
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