AUSTRALIAN WATERFRONT STILL IDLE.
FEDERATION’S ORDER V TO WORK JETTISONED , ' ' PROTECTION FOR VOLUNTEER#./ 1 ■ |l. Received Thursday 11. IQ p.nu SYDNEY, Sept. 20. Hopes of negotiations for a settlement of the waterside hold-up proving successful .wire abwjidonpd ar Melbourne this afternoon, the Federation deciding it. had no -alternative hut to •ceept the shipowners ’ challenge and fight the introduction of free labour'on the waterfront. The waterside conferences' decision instructing members to offer at all ports under the 'Beeby award is* thus jettisoned. - Over 100 volunteers signed on at Port Adelaide this afternoon. * At Canberra, the Labourites refused leave to -Mr. Bruce tp move the swjoud reading of a Bill’to ..protect free labour, on the .waterfronts 4 and tp: secure sontinuity of employment for, such labour after the stnke. The measure -<waa' therefore delayed till to-morrow. v, :
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 September 1928, Page 2
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