SHIPS HELD UP AT SYDNEY
16 VESSELS AFFECTED BY PAMIR DISPUTE (Rec. 8 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 13; Sixteen ships were affected to-day When for the fourth successive day the watersiders refused to answer calls at the inter-State pick-up centre. The hold-up results from the dispute about the number of men to work in the holds of the New Zealand barque Pamir during the unloading of timber. The threat to inter-State shipping is Sowing, as to-day six vessels were •t entirely without labour and 10 With incomplete gangs. Another potato famine looms, witn the stoppage of work on a v ®ss el Which arrived last Thursday from Tasmania with vegetables. w
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25082, 14 January 1947, Page 7
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