BAN ON DUTCH SHIPPING

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25245, 25 July 1947, Page 7

BAN ON DUTCH SHIPPING

Immediate Operation

In Australia

(Rec. 1.30 a.m.) SYDNEY. July 24. The Waterside Workers’ Federation to-day placed a ban on the loading of all Dutch ships in Australian ports. The decision was made at a meeting in Sliney of the Federal executive of the federation, after receipt of a resolution from the Queensland branch asking that the Federal council should consider such a ban. A resolution which was passed by the Federal executive called on the assistant-general secretary to communicate with the Australian Council of Trades Unions and Government authorities, acquainting them of the decision, and requesting “that the World Federation of Trade Unions be requested to call on all affiliated trade unions in all countries of the world to impose a complete ban on Dutch vessels, thereby isolating the Dutch imperialists in their endeavour to suppress the progressive peoples of Indonesia.” _ , The ban became effective at 9 pjn. to-day. < In a telegram to the Australian Council of Trades Unions, the Miners’ Federation urged support ter the action of the Waterside Workers’ Federation in placing a ban on Dutch ships. The Miners’ Federation also asked the council to issue an appeal to Dutch workers in Holland to apply economic sanctions against Dutch afction in Indonesia. An immediate ban on the working of Dutch ships in Australian ports was endorsed to-day at a stop-work meeting by 1600 members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation in Brisbane. The meeting called upon “workers throughout the world to withhold any support whatever from Dutch imperialism in its efforts to suppress the Indonesian people or their Republic.” - The Dutch freighter Tjibesar, cf 10,836 tons, is loading Army trucks, jeeps and stores for Java. The district committee of the Amalgamated Engineering Union in Melbourne has decided that no more ship repair work will be done in Melbourne after August 1 if Dutch ships are allowed to use the port facilities.

U.S. Welter-Weight Bout.—Marty Servo, a former welter-weight champion, opening a come-back, knocked, out Benny Singleton, of Waterbury, Connecticut, in 45 seconds of the second round. It was Servo's first fight since March, 1046, when he suffered a nose injury in a bout with Rocky Graziano, the present middle-weight champion.— New York, July 22.