AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
WHARF LABORERS' STRIKE,
Melbourne, January 4,
The wharf laborers' strike is exciting sympathy among draymen and yardmen. They refuse to place cargo on board the i ships. In consequence of the dispute several small vessels have been temporarily laid up, and the departure of others is being greatly delayed The agitation has 1 spread to Geelong, and 75 laborers have ! struck work there. (Received January 5, at 2.10 p.m.) i January 5. The offects of the wharf laborers' strike are extending in other directions, but mast rs ivmain firmly united. A large number of steamers engaged in the intercolonial trade have been laid up, including the Gabo, Fiado, Buninyong, C'irangamite, Burrutnbeet, and others. Howard Smith and Sons, Huddart, Parker) and Co, and the Australian Steam
Navigation Company have doubled their freights to Sydney and Queensland. (Received January 6, at 1.15 a.m.) The Melbourne masters have addressed a combined request to + he Sydney shipowners, asking them to co-operate in meeting the effects of the wharf laborers' ■strike.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5387, 6 January 1886, Page 2
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168AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5387, 6 January 1886, Page 2
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