LABOUR TROUBLES
NO SETTLEMENT VET. COAL TRIMMERS’ STRIKE. TWENTY SHIPS HELD UP. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. SYDNEY, May 25.; No settlement lias been effected in the coal trimmers’ .strike at Newcastle. Over twenty overseas and inter-Stato steamers are delayed awaiting cargoes of coal. Following on a meeting of the union, it was announced that unless the trimmers employed on the steamer Pakipaki were placed at the head of the raster there would he no resumption; of work.
TROUBLE AT STEELWORKS. OVER 1000 MEN INVOLVED. Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. SYDNEY. May 25. The trouble at the Lithgow isteel works has not vet been settled. Over one thousand men are involved. CONGESTION IN MARSHALLING YARDS. - I Received 12.5 p.m. to-day. SYDNEY, May 25. The position at the coal marshalling yards (at Bullock Island. Newcastle, is acute, and congestion is quickly developing. More than four thousand loaded waggons are in the yards. These will be considerably augmented by the output from the' collieries still working, but these pits will have to cease shortly for lack of waggons.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1927, Page 9
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