WORK AND WAGES.
!»-.«.5s Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. THE SYDNEY STRTKE. UNIONISTS QUIT WORK. SYDNEY, April 13. A now development has occurred in connection with the shipping strike. The seamen on (he Illawarra and Newcastle Companies' steamere refused to work with non-unionists, and left their vessels. THE STRIKE OVER. TERMS OF SETTLEMENT. SYDNEY, April 14. (Received April 14, at 9.20 a.m.) The strike is settled. The Seamen's Union have agreed to the coastal shipowners having a month to arrange with* all non-union crews being brought together into six steamen;. Meantime the unionists and non-nnioniste work together in these vessels. Trouble also cropped up in Newcastle, where thirty-three out of thirty-eight nonunionists emploved by the Newcastle and Hunter River Company struck work on the ground that under the new agreement they were only paid casual rates instead of weekly wages. Eleven of them returned to work, and the places of the others were filed bv unionists.
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Evening Star, Issue 12926, 14 April 1908, Page 6
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