WATERFRONT STRIKE.
MEN’S PROPOSAL. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, Nov. 2. In connection with the waterfront trouble a large meeting of the- Waterside Workers’ Federation yesterday resolved that no member of the federation should work on any ship or wharf after 5 p.m. until all members of the federation- are employed throughout Australia, and that all members working through the bureau be withdrawn and take their places at the dock gates with their fellow members. The resolution operates from to-morrow. MELBOURNE, Nov. 2, Meetings of wharf labourers and stevedores discussed the Sydney proposal for a waterfront strike. The union officials urged that the proposal would result in a general upheaval, and they did not want to invite a repetition of the 1917 defeat. There w'as a good deal of dissent from this attitude, but finally it Avas resolved that the time would not be ripe for a strike until all constituional methods of reaching an adjustment had been exhausted
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 November 1924, Page 5
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