Violent strike ends in Aust.

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33929, 23 August 1975, Page 15

Violent strike ends in Aust.

(N.Z Press Assn—Copyright) MELBOURNE, August 22. Melbourne’s troubled newspaper industry returns to normal again today with; the publication of the city’s three daily papers after a 14-day printers' strike which led to violent clashes between rival unionists. About 600 members of the printing and kindred industries union voted yesterday to end their two-week strike to enable deadlocked talks with publishers on claims for improved pay and conditions to reopen.

; The return to work means normal production of the city’s morning newspapers, the “Sun-Pictorial” and the “Age”, and the afternoon newspaper, the “Melbourne Herald,” will resume today. During the dispute, delivery men employed by the ; newspapers and picketers ( fought in the streets, a ; delivery truck was forced off the road and police were called in to investigate a report of a missile being fired through the window of another truck. The future of a new afternoon newspaper for Melbourne, launched this week by the publisher, (Mr Rupert Murdoch) to fill the news vacuum created by the strike, was uncertain. Mr Murdoch, whose new paper, the “Daily Truth,” was claimed to be an “instant success” with an initial print run of 300,000 said on Wednesday it would continue to be produced at least until the week-end.