“BLACK” PORTS.
SHIPPING DISORGANISED
TROUBLE IN Q U MEIN SL AN D • 1N DUS'T'RI ES AFFECTED. d Y CABLE—rjiP.SS ASSOCIATION—COP YRIGU’I. Received Sep. 18, 12.30 p.m. BRISBANE, Sep. 18. Sugar and timber industries were being seriously affected by the closing of several p-aute, owing to the action ot waterside workers in introducing the rotary system iff employment. The decision of the waterside rs to declare “black” the pouts of Brisbane and Townsville, at which the system was liot adopted, haiS thrown the cprustal trade into confusion. AM passenger services' are completely disorganized and regular cargo (services io the various -Queensland ports are .similarly affected. A number of sugar mills have ceased operations, owing to the inability to move their products. A secret railway ballot among the Brisbane waitersiders resulted in 193 being in favour of the introduction of * the rotary system and 937 against.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 September 1925, Page 9
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144“BLACK” PORTS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 September 1925, Page 9
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