WATERSIDERS IN AUSTRALIA
“ ROLLING ” STRIKE MAY BE CALLED
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)
SYDNEY, January 30.
The Waterside Workers’ Federation has set to-day as the deadline for negotiations lo prevent a “rolling” strike on the Australian waterfront.
The union’s Federal Council decided on a “rolling” strike to enforce demands for guaranteed minimum shifts and pensions. Union officials say that so far the shipowners have ignored the claims.
Shipping men suggest that the "rolling” strike technique could easily spread through the existing watersiders’ organisations to New Zealand and elsewhere in the Pacific. They also say that the aim of the Commun-ist-controlled Federal council of the Waterside Workers’ Federation is to have the strikes “roll” from port to port, tieing up a vital section of shipping in one place, and throwing a port idle somewhere else, but keeping the majority of union members employed. Industrial observers believe that the technique is inspired by the Communist Party, and that it combines the tactics of the sporadic short strikes used by car factory workers in America and the "strike in waves” plan of the Communists in France.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 3
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