THE BOYCOTT OF THE P. & O.
SYDNEY, SBth July. In view of the boycott of the Peninsular and Oriental Company arising out of the Jerger deportation, the company is asking the Federal Government for compensation for- any loss incurred. The wharf labourers refused work on the steamer Berrima to-day and were replaced by men from the shipping labourbureau. In the event of the boycott continuing at other ports, the company's steamers will load sufficient coal at Colombo, The deportation is esciting little interest in union circles in Sydney, the officials expressing the opinion that they have enough troubles of their own without starting a, religious stampede from work,
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 23, 27 July 1920, Page 7
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