PIG-IRON DISPUTE
Trouble Spreads To Sydney
(Received December 12, 11.15 p.m.)
SYDNEY, December 12. _ ’The Port Kembla pig iron dispute is still unsettled. A conference on the subject liegan in Melbourne today between members of the Trades Union Council and the Federal Attorney-Gen-eral, Mr. Menzies, who is responsible for the wharf licences decree. Further talks will take place tomorrow. Mr. Menzies today informed the Press that the Government had no intention of deviating from its attitude of compelling licences to be taken out by men seeking work on the waterfront at Port Kembla. The trouble extended to Sydney today when watersiders refused to load several rail trucks of pig iron aboard the Eastern liner Nellore bound for Japan. The crew of this vessel, who are all Chinese, also refused to take the ship to sea if pig iron were loaded on it.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 68, 13 December 1938, Page 11
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