Tally Clerks Hold Up Wool Shipments
SYDNEY, Tue. (12. 45 p.m.)— A complete ban on transhipment of wool from Sydney has been imposed by tally clerks and will operate from today until Sydney firms agree to employ 100 per cent, union staffs. At present 800 tally clerks are affected. The Federal executive of the union is supporting the clerks and is prepared to extend the dispute to other ports on Friday morning if it has not been settled in the meantime. WATERSIDERS’ BAN
Watersiders have refused to load certain Cargo into the freighter Hindustan, claiming that its ultimate destination would be the Netherlands East Indies.
The vessel has been held up in Sydney since Friday, but the agents announce that she will sail next Friday, leaving the banned cargo behind. The assistant general secretary of the Waterside Workers’ Federation (Mr E. Roach) said that the vessel was to have loaded 2300 tons of general cargo from Dutch stores in Sydney. After about 200 tons had been loaded the watersiders noticed that the port marks of Sourabaya and Batavia had been blocked out find Hongkong marks substituted.
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Northern Advocate, 25 November 1947, Page 4
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