ALL WORK CEASES AT SYDNEY
LONG STRUGGLE INDICATED
SYDNEY, 30th Nov,
The Sydney watersiders are now in line with those at Melbourne. When at 5 o’clock they were asked to work overtime they refufsedf This (will mean that/ under the shipowners’ terms of agreement, all loading and unloading of overseas and inter-State vessels will cease and the ships will be tied up. These latest developments are accented as an indication that a long struggle is commencing., The Seamen’s Union has asked the Waterside Federation to meet its representatives at a conference to consider the future conduct of the dispute. It is stated that the seamen intend to urge that all ships throughout Australia be declared black.
At Newcastle wharf labourers worked to-day, but to-nightdollowed the lead of Sydney and declined overtime work.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 1 December 1927, Page 5
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