INDUSTRY PARALYSED
OFFICIALS FLOUTED
POINTS AT ISSUE
(From "The Post's" Representative) SYDNEY, December 5. , Once again the Seamen's Union has fastened the shackles of paralysis on the Australian shipping industry. Seaborne trade is the life-blood of Australian national economy—trade borne not only from overseas, but also from city to city, from port to port, around her 10,000 miles of coast-line. Governments of all political complexions have recognised this and have fostered and protected a national shipping industry, which today, with modern liners and an efficient corps of officers, is well worthy of the pride Australians have in it. But the workers on these ships —sometimes a minority tail wagging the dog, sometimes a majority—have frequently impaired the industry's efficiency and value by falling into industrial disputes. The latest strike is merely one of a long succession. SEAMEN'S SMALL THANKS. The Australian seaman is favoured by wage and other conditions much superior to those ruling in other mercantile marines. He has shared in the encouragement and protection given to the industry by the nation. But, in the main, the seamen have shown little thanks for thai' preferential
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 141, 11 December 1935, Page 11
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186INDUSTRY PARALYSED Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 141, 11 December 1935, Page 11
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