HOPELESS FIGHT

Northern Advocate, 11 October 1928, Page 5

HOPELESS FIGHT

SHIPPING STRIKERS’ CAUSE SANE LABOUR ATTITUDE. ALARMING BOMBING RUMOURS. (Australian Press Association.) (Received 8.18 a.m.) MELBOURNE, October 10. The plans being made by the Central Strike Committee to withdraw j the members of the Engiuedrivcrs and iFiremen's Association from tugboats and lighters are unlikely to succeed, as these men have already expressed opposition to the strike policy. The carters meet tonight, but it is believed that, instead of resolving to join the strike at once, they wall demand that the watersiders should first take a secret ballot of their own members to see if they really favour continuing W’hat is regarded as a hopeless fight. The train service between the city to Port Melbourne was suspended for nearly two hours late last night, owing to reports that bomb outrages had been planned against trains carrying free wharf workers.

Police and railway authorities guarded the line carefully, but a thorough search revealed nothing' sinister.

Theatre patrons and. others going homo towards midnight, when the (rains resumed, travelled with uneasy minds and tense nerves. The lintwas strongly guarded all night. While a mass meeting of strikers was in progress this morning, 1900 volunteers were working 30 oversea and interstate ships. Over 35,000 enrolments have been made already, including a number of unionist workers from Queensland.

There are still 25 Idle interstate ships at Melbourne.

INTERNAL DISSENSION,

DISORDERLY MEETING. (Australian Press Association.) (Received 8.18 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 10. The meeting of the Waterside Federation in Sydney today was marked by exciting moments. Feeling ran high between those favouring extension of the waterside trouble and those contending that the Sydney men should continue work ou all vessels. It is understood that the furniture of the meeting hall was roughly handled. The men dispersed in disorder.