DESOLATE APPEARANCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 3 December 1927, Page 7

DESOLATE APPEARANCE

SYDNEY WATERFRONT '(Received 3rd Dec", 10,45 a.m.) . .SYDNEY, This Day. As the strike, is developing effects are becoming more widespread. Many thousands of men have been idled throughout the Commonwealth, involving colossal loss to industry. All interstate commerce has ceased and the loss of Wages alone is estimated at £30,000 daily. * The waterfront at Sydney presents a desolate appearance, for apart from a few ships the wharves are deserted. ;It. is expected to-day that 10,000 miners on the northern coalfields will be thrown out of employment as a result of the hold-up of inter-state and oversea shipping. "A DIRE CALAMITY" STRIKE AT PRESENT JIINCTURE SYDNEY, This Day. There are approximately 64 oversea steamers in' Australian waters ' with a tonnage of 440,000. All these are affected by the strike. Mr Mceks, president' of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, states that the complete hold-up of shipping at the present juncture can only be described as a dire calamity. All steamers arriving are carrying seasonable goods, which, if they cannot be placed on the market for the Christmas trade, will have to remain in bond stores for twelve months and risk deterioration and the loss of in-; terest i will be-a heavy burden for the commercial community.