BILL PASSES SENATE

Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 19

BILL PASSES SENATE

Wharf Strike May Spread (N Z.P.A -Reuter— Copyright) CANBERRA. May 18. The Senate early today passed without amendment the controversial waterside workers’ long-service leave Bill which yesterday caused a nation-wide 24-hour waterfront strike. The strikers are due to return to work in all ports at 8 a.m. today—but waterfronts will still not be free of trouble. A total of 3000 tally clerks at all ports, except Hobart and Port Adelaide, have threatened to stop work because shipowners refused to sign them on yesterday while the waterside workers were idle. Massed meetings of waterside workers yesterday attacked the Federal Government over the long-service leave Bill, which they object to because it contains penalties for unauthorised waterfront stoppages. In tbe House of Representatives, the Treasurer (Mr Harold Holt) described yesterday’s stoppage as “industrial sabotage.” Traffic Engineers’ Course Mr W. H. Scott, a district engineer of the City Council, is one of 24 engineers attending a course at the Traffic Engineering School of the University of Sydney. There are seven New Zealand engineers at the course, three from the Philippines, two from Victoria, one from Tasmania, two from Queens, land, one from South Australia and eight from New South Wales, one of whom is a Sikh who is taking the course on his own .account. Only two members of the class are employed as traffic engineers. The others are associated with the design and or construction of roads.