Sydney Strike.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1455, 6 November 1911, Page 5

Sydney Strike.

MEN RESUME TO-DAY.

BEREFT OP SYMPATHY,

TREY GIVE IN.

(Press As/wir.tion —By Telegraph.— copyright).

Sydney, Saturday,

About three tlianswd attended tlie wharf labourers' meeting, and buother thousand were uuable to get

It wbs' decided, on a show of hands, to return to work oti Monday. The inter-state men realised they had not the sympathy of the' deepsea men. The latter state that they ha»e°no grievance. Mr Carmichael (Minister for Publlo Works) addressed tha meeting. He urged the men to return home and submit the dispute to aritration.

MR OARMIOHAEL'S ADVIOE

ACCEPTED.

BIG MAJORITY FAVOURS RESUMPTION.

SOME ROWDYISM.

• The wharf labourers meeting was interrupted by an extremely rowdy section of young men down the speakers proposing resumption of work.

The deep-sea men predominated and fclioy decided to accapt Mr Uarmiohaei's advice.

llr Garmioltael, in his address, decayed that the oontiuuauce cf the strike meant a blow to unionism,and possibly the dpisth blow of the Labour Government.

The vote resnlted in a majority of approximately six to one favouring resumption of work. Shipowners express satisfaction bnt state that thev.fail to sea what grounds there was for arbitration, ps an agreement- is already in existauce, [and the conditions are not different to when it was entered upon.

WORK RESUMED TO-DAY.

Melbourne, Saturday.

In the Federal House of Representatives, ill reply to questions, the Premier, |Mr Fisher, said the Government was doing, and would do everything possible in the wharf laborers' strike. No matter what the other Government did, the Federal Government could be relied on to enforce the law.

The Attorney-General, Hon. Mr Hughes, declared that the State Government could take action if it desired, but the Commonwealth could do nothing until the affair became an inter-State dispute. An overwhelming majority of the men were opposed to the strike.

Sydney, Saturday,

Mr Spence, a member of the House of Representatives, president of the Australian Workers' Union, declared that not a union can support the wharf laborers' action, which was reprehensible from any view-point. The Council of Waterside Workers forwarded a resolution to be read at to-day's meeting, regretting the men's action and calling upon them forthwith to resume work' on the terms of the agreement that had been honorably entered into.

The tram strikers (resumed temporarily, when tteji tom promised an enqiiii-y.

Fremantle, Saturday.