Watersiders Lift Embargo On Scrap Iron Loading
(Received 8.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 25. The waterside workers held a stopwork meeting today, at which 400 were present, to consider the ultimatum of the Federal Government that unless they agreed to load all cargoes offering, the licensing provisions of the Transport Workers’ Act would be applied to the Sydney members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, and other disciplinary action would be taken.
By an overv/helming majority, the meeting decided to lift their four months’ embargo on the loading of scrap-iron, tin clippings and tallow for Japan and Germany, and thus escape licensing. The meeting carried a resolution expressing its “realisation of the disastrous effects of the licensing system on fellow unionists in other parts of Australia, and the distress, poverty and unemployment caused to loyal members resulting from it.”
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Northern Advocate, 26 May 1938, Page 7
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