WATERSIDERS’ STRIKE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 8 October 1928, Page 5

WATERSIDERS’ STRIKE

MARITIME WORKERS’ POLICY. NO ACTION TO END TROUBLE. SECURING FINANCIAL AID. (Unira-J Press Ass-eiatlon —By Electric T-tlegrapn Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 10.20 a.m. to-day. SYDNEY, Oct. 8. Having drawn up a. policy for the conducting o, the waterfront strike, the conference of the maritime transport unions lia-s concluded. Waterside unionists are to refuse licenses under the Transport Act, and disputes must be confined to present limits. It has been decided to take no action to end the strike. Rians have been formulated whereby other- unions should provide financial assistance to the strikers and their dependents. POLICY OF FIRMNESS SUCCEEDING. ENGLISH PAPER,’S COMMENT. LONDON, Oct. 6. “News from, Australia shows that Mr Bruce’s policy of firmness is having success,” says the “Morning Post.” “If the Federal Government had been in the control of the Socialists it is probable 'that no such firm stand would have been made, and the Australian people would have been, left to fight anarchy themselves. “There is an abundance of stout stuff in Australia, as we saw m war time, •and the people would doubtless- have won through in the end, bu't the situation would have been incomparably more dangerous.” An editorial emphasises the fact that the arbitration award actually precipitated the struggle, and continues: “Machinery- between master and man, as between nation and nation, can never take the place of the knowledge, sympathy and courage which remain in all the relations of human kind.”