NEW DOCK STRIKE
3000 Stop In Sydney iN Z Press Assn —Copyrujnt J SYDNEY. March 27 About 3000 wharf labourers walked off the fob in Svdnev today, and later decided to extend the stoppage to 24 hours The stoppage, the second m a week has caused Sydney’s worst shipr’ng bank-up for 10 years About 50 ships were without labour Last Wednesday dockers in all Australian ports held a 24-hour strike to press claims foi a wage rise four weeks’ annual leave a vear and a oensior sc’ •« Today’s hold-up was confined to Svdnev but in Melbourne about 450 stevedore* ••efused calls for work because they said too many men had been called for what was available
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30092, 28 March 1963, Page 15
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