WATERFRONT STRIKE

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28445, 27 November 1957, Page 15

WATERFRONT STRIKE

More Discussions In Sydney MELBOURNE. Nov. 26. The Australian Council of Trade] Unions moved in the Sydney waterfront dispute today. ( After the meeting of the council's inter-State executive, the president. Mr Albert Monk, spoke to the chairman of the Stevedoring Industry Authority, Mr J. Hewitt. Mr Monk said that be had submitted to Mr Hewitt suggestions for an inquiry into all incidents of the Krespi case. (The dispute began over the dismissal and subsequent deregistration of a Sydney watersidcr, J. Krespi, who was alleged to have struck a foreman.) As the position stood at the moment, the authority wanted to discuss what the A.C.T.U. had put |up with the Shipowners’and Forejman Stevedores’ Association before giving its own views on the ! proposals. I Mr Monk said that it was ex- ■ pected that the authority’s point ;of view would be available beifore 10 a.m. tomorrow when the council’s inter-State executive | would resume its discussions on I the dispute. ! The port is expected to be completely idle tomorrow while | watersiders hold another protest stop-work. Union officials an- ! r.ounced the meeting this after- ' noon. The stoppage is expected to ■last 25 hours. Officials said that ithe men would discuss the union’s I next moves. | Fewer than 400 of the port’s I 5600 men were working today. The iP. and O. liner Arcadia, due to ; leave Sydney on Thursday, will ' now leave at 6 p.m. on Saturday. Passengers from the migrant ship, jCastel Felice, were still going (through customs five hours after | the ship berthed today.