MARCH ON ARBITRATION COURT— Three-day Suspension For 4097 Watersiders

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 August 1949, Page 5

MARCH ON ARBITRATION COURT— Three-day Suspension For 4097 Watersiders

SYDNEY, This Day (Rec 10 a.m.).—The newly-constituted Stevedoring Industry Board has suspended for three days 4097 waterside workers who ceased work at noon yesterday and inarched on the Arbitration Court. < The board has also lodged an application in the Arbitration Court for the suspension of attendance money and annual leave credits of all the watersiders who take part in illegal stoppages. An early hearing of this application is expected.

Twelve demonstrators will appear before the court. They were bailed out by a man with a large bag of banknotes after the Magistrate had remanded them to appear in a fortnight. , The man with the bag described himself as “a successful punter who saw the boys were in trouble.” He added that he knew where the missing funds of the Waterside. Workers’ Federation were, but said: “They can’t touch me.”

This man also bailed out several men charged yesterday with offensive behaviour during week-end meetings. The Waterside Workers’ Federation intends to appeal against the suspensions. The Australian Stevedoring Industry Board was appointed recently to

replace, the Stevedoring Industry Commission which’ collapsed when the Waterside Workers’ Federation delegates, Messrs J. Healy and E. Roach, refused to give guarantees that they would refrain from inciting the watersiders to go against the directions of the commission. (Earlier Messages on Page 6).