SYDNEY SCENE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 88, 15 April 1941, Page 5

SYDNEY SCENE.

; GAS HANDS' STRIKE. ; | j' ; YOUTH'S GAME STRUGGLE, j I T~, i i S\DKE\. April 10. i 1 More i- likely to l>e heard of the use! j by* the Australian Cas Light Company,] i which chares with one other company ( monopoly of Sydney's enormous gas! business, of the National Security Kegu-j i lations to evict 1000 stay-in strikersj - from its Mortlake works, on Tuesday.| > The strike began over claims for long j [-[service leave and holidays and sick| | leave. The men spent "Monday night! in the works and police made no mow' '.to interfere with their womenfolk who; j brought meals to them. On Tuesday.' however, the company .-erved the men' j with notice to quit is«ued under a' National Security regulation declaring! jtlie works a proniiiitod place. The men I were finally persuaded I>\- ]>olice officers' !to march out but are sti'll on strike, j \A ashed off the rocks below Rose Bay ■ heights while collecting cungevoi for J ba i t. Lan McKellar (17) struggled 1 gamely in the water ijg half an hour! until iie was rescued bvlTfishiii" lauiu-h. 1 His younger brother ran for help and men began running north and -outh jalong the cliffy looking for any kind of boat to go tii the rescue. Meantime' hundreds of people lined the cliffs and j watched the youth's struggles in the! 'swirling water where undertows dragged !his head under every few minutes and; swept him sometimes out to sea and) then back again towards the rocks. Justj as the launch which had been attracted to go to tfie youth's rescue reached hira.j watchers on the cliff saw the fin of a. lyrge shark making for the lad. He' was pulled aboard on the point of exhaustion. Mr. Alfred E. Bridges, of Melbourne.! lather ot the Australian-born AmericanPacific Coast Labour leader. Harry' Bridges, against whom yet new depor-, tation proceedings have been started, iisays his son is not a Comanuniet. no {matter what may be alleged against him iin the States. Should Bridges be dejported, Australia could not refuse to

Jallovv him into this country as he has! not become naturalised in the United) States. His father, who is an estate; agent, said that if his son did come lierei he would probably go into politics, but! | he did not know if he would be as big; ja success in Australia as he had beenj 'in America. "Harry can't <be bought," he said. '"That's a good quality any-; j where, but it's taken him to the top in 'America. In Australia his fairness and) | steadfastness would not be so outstand-| jing. People give each other a better go jout here." i