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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 September 1927, Page 5

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LOSS TO WORKERS THE QUEENSLAND STRIKE. INDIGNANT SUGAR WORKERS. » I.'A KLB-PHEHB ASSOCIATION -copyright Received 11 a.m. to-day. BRISBANE, Sept. 13. It i..s estimated that the stoppage of the railways for eight days cost the raihvaymen over £IOO,OOO, and the Department over £25,000. The cost to the other industries and to the cmpoyo.Ys must have also been considerable.

Steps are being taken by the Hans, port unions to prevent the unionists in isolated centres involving ether unions in an industrial trouble t>v declaring goods “black.” A provisional council consisting of representatives of the Australian- Workers’ Union, the yvater siders. seamen, coal and .shale miners, representatives of the Brisbane Trades and Labour Council, and others will be formed. News of the settlement of the s.rike caused a sensation in Innisfai’, where the strikers tore down the first notice of thra news yvhich yvaa posted outside the neyvspaper office. There yvere many violent outbursts of indignation.

RAILWAY MEN SIGN ON. SUGAR. WORKERS INDIGNANT. SAY THEY WILL NOT GO BACK. BRISBANE, Sept. 12. The trains have recommenced running. There was a full attendance all day Sunday at the Commissioner’s office of strikers to sign the declaration to abide by the Commissioner’s orders. Although the railway strike has ended, the men at South Johnstone express themse’ves as indignant at the railway men's return to yvork. They say that the South Johnstone strike is no nearer settlement than a week •* go, and they yvill explore other avenues for support. A meeting of the Trades and Labour Council decided to take steps to form an Industrial Labour Party and a congress of all unions is being convened for this objest. As a result of the strike many businesses yvhich havp only just been able to keep going have dismissed numbers of their emnloyees. and it is stated that these yvill not be re-emp,oyed The •effect on the railways is also disastrous, as people' have discovered that motor transport, in many Instances, is better and cheaper than rail, and they yvill not return to the railways.