WATERSIDE STRIKE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 October 1928, Page 5

WATERSIDE STRIKE

MEN RESUME AT ADELAIDE. “WORK, DON’T PLAY THE FOOL.” JUDGE’S STRAIGHT ADVICE. I.li'iied Press Association —By Electric Telegrupu Copyright-) (Australian Press Association.) ADELAIDE,, Oct. 5. Nearly 600 Waterside Federation members were picked tip tliis morning, but they had to await the exhaustion of the. supply of free labour before they were engaged. About 1000 who remained unemployed bombarded the president- of the union. Air Whitfield, with complaints. His reply was that the men left comprised the Bolshevik element. Air Fleming, secretary of the NewSouth Wales branch of the Seamen’s Union, declared ‘to-day that seamen in Australia would not work under any circumstances with non-union labour. He complained that the gaoling of the Fiona seamen at Cairns was a breach of the undertaking given by tire Colonial Sugar Company in order to persuade the crew' to take the ship out of Sydney. Eight members of the crew of the Huddart Parker steamer Yarra wen lined eight days’ pay at Newcastle for disobeying orders at sea. Refusing to suspend the preference clauses of the Beeby award for north Queensland ports, Chief Judge Dethridge to-day advised the watersiders: “Work, work, don’t play the fool." The Australian Council of Trades Unions to-day continued its conference at Melbourne despite the result of the meeting with. Mr Bruce and khe employers’ declaration that obedience to the law must precede a- conference between the parties. Precautions have been taken to preserve the secrecy of the , conference deliberations The Jock Garden wing is believed to be losing ground owing to the suspicion that its activities are aimed to damage the party’s political standing.