GENERAL SHIPPING STRIKE AVERTED.
SEAMEN REJECT DICTATION BY COMMUNIST LANDLUBBERS.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.
What was probably the largest meeting of the Seamen’s Union ever held in Sydney defeated a motion aiming at a general strike. Determined efforts were made by avowed Communists to have the strike motion carried, but when the genuine seamen saw that some of the so-called mariners who wanted the ships tied up had never been to sea in their lives, that settled the matter.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 April 1931, Page 5
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