STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK IN QUEENSLAND
(Rec. 3 p.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Over 20,000 railwaymen, watersiders and seamen returned to work today, exactly nine weeks since the paralysing Queensland strike began. The order by the Disputes Committee ends what is described as the “most disastrous and futile strike Australia has experienced in a generation.” Two American freighters, which berthed today, are the' first overseas ships to enter a Queensland port since the watersiders struck on. March 1. Other Australian States are still threatened with a sugar shortage as a result of the strike.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 April 1948, Page 6
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