DECLARED “BLACK.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 November 1924, Page 5

DECLARED “BLACK.”

REFUSAL TO WORK SHIPS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT MELBOURNE, Nov. 20. A inase meeting of wharf labourers decided not to handle coal or any over-, seas vessel declared “black” by the Waterside Federation. It is announced that the Melbourne wharf labourers will refuse fuel for the Maloja on her arrival. The Peninsular Company will be involved in a huge loss, as the steamer is running to mail schedule, and the cargo may have to be- abandoned. If the vessel is black in Melbourne she/will be black in all other Australian ports, and, may be compelled to leaffe with empty holds. In the event of the “wharfies” carrying out their threat against the Maloja, the Peninsular Company will approach the Arbitration Court for a compulsory conference or secure non-union labour. Plans for launching an attack on oversea shiploading through the Sydney Labour Bureau were formulated at a meeting, of the Waterside Workers’ Federation.

It was announced that the federation had declared the liner Maloja black, because it was stated that she was loaded- . at Sydney by bureau labour. Serious developments are not expected at the other ports till the ships loaded through the bureau are declared black; then a direction will be issued by the federation that the cargo on these vessels must not be handled by unionists at the different ports. A proposal is being considered to exempt vessels loaded wholly by union labour. NO SYMPATHY FROM DRIVERS. • SYDNEY, Nov. 20. A meeting of the Trolley and Draymen and Motor Drivers’ Union, declined to join the sea transport group of-unions in their war on the shipping labour bureau, refusing the request of the sea transport group,; to refrain from carting goods to or from oversea steamers on the ground that they have been declared black because they were worked _by the shipping labour bureau. The union decided to continue to stand aloof from the dispute,.