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PIG IRON SUPPLIES TROUBLE SPREADS TO SYDNEY fD.P A —by Electric Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, 12th December. The Port Kembla pig iron dispute is still unsettled. A conference on the subject began in Melbourne to-day between members of the Trades Union Council and the Federal Attorney-Gen-eral, Mr R. G. Menzies, who is responsible for the wharf licenses decree. Fuither talks will take place to-morrow. Mr Menzies to-day informed the Press that the Government had no intention of deviating from its attitude of compelling licenses to be taken out by men seeking work on the waterfront at Port Kembla. The trouble extended to Sydney today when watersiders refused to load several rail trucks of pig iron aboard the Eastern liner Nellore bound for Japan. The crew of this vessel, who are all Chinese, also refused *.> tak j the ship to sea if pig iron were loaded ' on it NOT FOR JAPAN (Received 13th December, 11.25 a.m ) SYDNEY, This Day. Union officials have instructed Sydney waterside workers to load pig iron ; aboard the Nellore as they have been : assured that it is intended for Shanghai. ' not Japan.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 13 December 1938, Page 8
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