AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY WATERSIDE
SYDNEY. April 1
About 2500 troops are now engaged in unloading ships at Sydney wharves. The watersiders persist in their refusal to work under the gang system devised by the Stevedoring Industry Commission. Feeling between the soldiers and the wharf labourers was friendly. Observers estimate that the servicemen on Wednesday moved 50 per cent, more cargo than is usually moved by an equivalent number of wharf labourers in the same time. It is understood that a watersiders’ deputation sent to Canberra was told by the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) and other Ministers that the gang system-was necessary for the swift handling of cargoes and that the Government had no intention of changing its mind on this matter. Ministers undertook to ask the Stevedoring Commission to give prompt consideration to any suggestions made by the Waterside Workers’ Federation for" modifications and improvements ‘of the gang system, provided they did not interfere with the speedier handling of cargoes.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 April 1943, Page 5
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