WHARF WORK RESUMED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22289, 26 March 1947, Page 5

WHARF WORK RESUMED

ACTIVITY AT SYDNEY BIG PERISHABLE CARGOES (11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 26 The watersiders, who resumed work yesterday after a fortnight’s strike, found that potatoes in the ships’ holds were in good condition. Swedes and turnips in one vessel were rotten. Produce merchants’ trucks queued up at the wharves to take delivery of vegetables and distribute them to city and suburban shops for sale to-day. The potato cargoes in three ships total 44,000 bags, some of which have been aboard for four weeks. Three other ships, among the first on which unloading recommenced, were carrying salt and two had cargoes of sugar. The watersiders offered for work m large numbers, but there were nearly 1000 men short of the demand. The Returned Servicemen’s League has announced that it will take legal action against the Waterside Workers Federation, if necessary, to ensure that preference shall be given to ex-service-men when the 500 new members are admitted to the federation. Officials of the league said that it was prepared to proceed even to the extent of taking out an injunction through the Courts to restrain the union from abrogating the preference provisions.