MEN EMPLOYED AT SYDNEY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 2 December 1927, Page 5

MEN EMPLOYED AT SYDNEY

PROMISE TO WORK OVERTIME

SYDNEY, Ist Dec.

There was not lack of wharf labourers offering at the early pick-ups in Sydney this morning, and fhey verbally expressed willingness to work overtime, and on the strength o 7 these promises they were allowed to start work. They have a final opportunity of honouring their overtime promise to-night, but should they refuse, the struggle will begin in earnest to-morrow morning when the shipowners will definitely enforce the agreements, and the failure of the men to observe the agreements will mean that the ships will be laid up. A meeting of Sydney watersiders today, endorsed all the actions of the Federal Waterside Workers’ Management Committee, and after the meeting Mr Seale, secretary of the Sydney branch of the Federation stated that there would certainly be no loading or discharging of cargo after 5 o’clock tonight. Anticipating developments Mcllwraitlis decided to lay up the steamer Ivaroola, engaged in the passenger trade to Australia. Notice also was given to three Adelaide company’s vessels the Ulooloo, Arkaba, and Aldinga to pay off their crews to-morrow. -Howard Smith’s inter-Statc passenger liner Canberra will pay off upon her arrival at Sydney this afternoon. . The passenger bookings for Melbourne have been cancelled. The same company’s cargo steamer Saros is paying off to-morrow.

DISORDER AT ADELAIDE

(Received 2nd December, noon) ADELAIDE, This Day. The first strike disorder occurred at Port Adelaide, where a Press photographer, after taking a snapshot of a number of striking watersiders, \vas mobbed and his camera and contents smashed.