PEEVED WHARFIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10456, 10 December 1927, Page 9

PEEVED WHARFIES.

HAD -MJ SAY IN RECENT STRIKE SUGGESTED BREAKAWAY FROM TRANSPORTERS (United Press Assn.—Copyright.; SYDNEY, Dee. 9. At a meeting of the .Labor Council members complained that the leaders of the wharf laborers declared the recent strike without consulting the officials of the associated unions, the ’majority of whose members were rendered idle through the stoppage. The council resolved to ask the Australasian Council of Trade Unions to convene a conference of the transport unions with a view to obviating independent strikes. The council also decided to ask the members of all affiliated unions not to work overtime in order that some of the unemploved might- be absorbed—U.P. A HEAVY COST OK UPHEAVAL SHIPOWNERS LOSE AT LEAST £300,000 MELBOURNE, Dec. 9. The latest estimate of the cost of the strike to shipowners is at least £300,000, of which the infer-State owners’ share is £YOO,COO. The loss to the country as a whole is incalculable.—U.P. A. “BLACK" BAN LIFTED CARGO BOATS WORKED SYDNEY, Dec. !). No difficulty was experienced in securing labor to work the Union Co.’s steamer Kiwitea, the cargo of which was declared “black” during tile strike because it was loaded by employees of the Zinc Co. at Risdon. The cargo was discharged yesterday, and the vessel' will sail on Monday The Kakariki, which was held up at Melbourne lor a similar reason, also was worked.—U.P.A. MANY CREWS TO BE SIGNED ON TO-DAY (Received Dec. 9, 9.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 9. The crews of a number of steamers which could not he assembled yesterday signed on for to-day. Tremendous activity is everywhere apparent on the‘waterfronts. Everything is proceeding 'smoothly.— U.P. A. POTATO SPECULATORS CRASH (Received Dec. 9, 9 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dee. 9. Tlie end of the strike released large supplies of new potatoes, so that the market was glutted. and prices fell from £l3 to £6, rising again to £S for choicer varieties, while for other classes prices dropned as low as £4—U.P.A.