SEEKING A FORMULA
MELBOURNE STRIKERS FIGHTING A LOSING BATTLE MELBOURNE, 15th October. The waterside workers' to-day ar» formulating a policy for future action, one proposal being to confine the strike •to Melbourne and endeavour to obtain, financial help. A number of members i ire convinced they are fighting a losing" battle. The Australian Council of TVades Unions will meet the watersiiilers' representatives in conference tomorrow in "order to plan further activities. ITlie port of Geelong to-day .was involved in a strike, the stevedores on two vessels retiring. . Work on these vessels is at a standstill. Thus total enrolment of volunteers on tho 1 Melbourne wharves is 14,200. Tho shipo vvners have stopped, enrolling them. . ,
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 82, 16 October 1928, Page 9
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114SEEKING A FORMULA Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 82, 16 October 1928, Page 9
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