DENIED REPAIRS
DAMAGED DUTCH DESTROYER ACTION BY DOCKERS'UNION SYDNEY. June 7. The expected ban on the repairing - of the Dutch destroyer Piet Hein came when officials of the Ship Painters and Dockers' Union issued warnings to all dock managements in Sydney that members of the union would not do any work on the ship. Uniou officials declared that if their members worked on the destroyer in Sydney they would be letting down their mates in Fremantle, Port Adelaide, and Melbourne, where the unionists had' refused work on the vessel. This proves incorrect the statement by the Minister for the Navy, Mr, N. J' Makin, that the reason for refusal of dooking facilities was due-entirely to pressure of work in Australian shipyards. ; ' • The Federal Opposition leader, Mr R. G. Menzies, to-day asked Mr Makin three questions:—Does Mr Makin denv that at these porta there has been a refusal by some vital sections of employees to work on the shipP Does he deny that this refusal has been because of the ship's nationality P Does he deny that this, in effect, is nn intervention on behalf of the Indonesian Republican Movement, and, if so. what is the Government doing afoout if
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Evening Star, Issue 25813, 8 June 1946, Page 7
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199DENIED REPAIRS Evening Star, Issue 25813, 8 June 1946, Page 7
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