TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL
A STRING OF RESOLUTIONS WATERSIDERS' ASSISTANCE. (Received 28th August, 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A meeting of the Trades and Labour Council adopted a series of resolutions endorsing the action of the striking British seamen, condemning any attempt to enforce the Deportation Act, which it declared to be a challenge to the whole working-class movement, and pledging itself to meet the challenge by bringing all the forces of the trades union movement into action. It also resolved that all British ships arriving in Australian ports should automatically become black until the demands of' the seamen are conceded, and that the Trades and Labour Councils throughout Australia be' urged to support the seamen. The president of the Waterside Workers' Federation announced that the members of the federation would be instructed not to handle any cargo in or out of vessels manned by crews who took the places of strikers.. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 51, 28 August 1925, Page 7
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