“STAB IN THE BACK"
COMMONWEALTH LINE’S ACTION
MELBOURNE. 30th Nov,
Shipowners are incensed at the Commonwealth Line standing aloof and giving them what they describe as a stab in the hack.
The city coal supplies are threatened, among the ships lning up being four colliers.
The position will be reviewed by the Trades Hall Council to-morrow, when an effort will be made to force the Waterside Federation to consult the whole Labour movement. Over 30 overseas and inter-State vessels''are in port. Those due to sail include the Kaponga for New Zealand. In the Assembly the Premier, Mr Logan, staled that lie had been exerting every effort to effect, a settlement in (he dispute, and hoped it would he possible tq prevent a. general stoppage.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 1 December 1927, Page 5
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