QUEENSLAND STRIKE
COST TO STATE AND INDUSTRIES GREAT LOSS IN WAGES Brisbane, September 13. Tt is estimated that the stoppage of the railways for eight days cost the railwaymen over £lOO,OOO and the Department over £25,000. The cost to other industries and employees must plso be considerable. Steps are being taken by transport unions to prevent unionists in isolated centres involving other unions in industrial troubles by declaring goods black. A provisional council consisting of representatives of the Australian Workers’ Union, the Australian Railways Union, with watersiders, seamen, and coal shale miners’ representatives, the Brisbane Trades and Labour Council and others will be formed. News of the settlement of the strike caused a sensation at Innislail, where strikers tore down the first notice of the news posted outside a newspaper office. There were many violent outbursts of indignation.
SOUTH JOHNSTONE STRIKERS
ACCEPT COURT’S TERMS
(Rec. September 13, 8.15 p.m.) Brisbane, September 13. A meeting of South Johnstone strikers decided b.y an overwhelming majority to return to work on the Arbitration Court’s terms, thus ending the fourteen weeks’ strike. All train services are now running normally.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 297, 14 September 1927, Page 11
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