Split Among Rail Strikers?
BRISBANE, Sat. (11 a.m.)—Despite the spate of solidarity resolutions passed by railwaymen throughout Queensland yesterday, evidence is accumulating of a definite split in the strikers’ ranks.
Reports through Government channels indicate that about 1000 locomotive enginemen intend to return to work on Monday.
Already so many railwaymen are back that 216 trains ran yesterday, compared with 145 on Thursday, and only a dozen a fortnight ago. Watersiders at Bowen have begun to unload Ihe freighter Time, which arrived yesterday with 600 tons of general cargo, including food. Meetings of Queensland railway strikers yesterday .decided by overwhelming majorities to continue the strike, which is now in its 39th day. Brisbane watersiders agreed to stay out in sympathy with the railwaymen. At Ipswich, the main railway yards in Queensland, the voting to continue the strike was 1950 to 50, according to Trades Hall officials.
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Northern Advocate, 13 March 1948, Page 7
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