THE SYDNEY STRIKE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, 11 April 1908, Page 4

THE SYDNEY STRIKE.

CLEARING THE WAT Tb A £E3TLEMENT. triIESS ASSOCIATION . 7. - ' 5 SYDNEY, April if). • Thp chief pcvint; at issue wheA the contort nee adjourned t ill Wednesday was tihetli'ea* members of the Institute of Mar’iie Engineers should return to .work while allying engineers engaged <m coastal boats during, the- strike to complete tho terms of thoir agreement with tho companies, some of which, it- is stated, Ibul to run fcvielvo months. ' • A. ballot of tho members of the. Institufe bo-duy decided to allow fre« engine egg to 1 complete, their . agreements.

Subsequently a meeting of repre-sehtati-vee, t«f tho coastal companies provisional agreement. -< Av meeting of the unions affected is hom m progress The latest report r i& that they have refused certain pro--.poises: the agreement ■ v.r unsettled. .