Wharf Strike In Sydney
INJI. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY. May 16. Nearly 300 wharf labourers walked off 34 of the 37 ships in Sydney Harbour today. It was the first mass walkoff since the Waterside Workers’ Federation and the Australian Council of Trade Unions made a truce with the Federal Government last Friday. But the union's genera] secretary, Mr C. H. Fitzgibbon, who called the strike, claimed that it was a purely domestic issue, and had nothing to do with the nostrike truce.
Mr Fitzgibbon said that the men walked off because shipowner* and stevedoring foremen were placing men on jobs out of the order in which they were rostered for work.
Parade Preparations^- As the time draws nearer tor the ceremony on June 3 Of lodging the Queen’s Colour at the Royal New Zealand Air Force statical. Wigram. the 100-strong colour squadron under the command of Squadron Leader J. E- Wood is drilling almost daily. The eolour-bearer for the ceremony, Flying Officer G. Ragg, is also taking part in the practices
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29824, 17 May 1962, Page 17
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