THE MARITIME STRIKE.
URGING AN EXTENSION. STRONG PRESSURE BEGUN. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY, July 14. Delegates from Melbourne have arrived to push the movement in connection with the proposed general strike to support the seamen. Definite action is anticipated during the week. The indications are that the miners are not favourable to a strike.
In Melbourne a demonstration in support of the strike was held yesterday. Mr. Thomas Walsh, secretary of the Federated Seamen's Union, urged that they must have direct action. To accept the Arbitration Court would be to confirm the principle of wage slavery. They were going to get a settlement outside of the court. If that settlement was not forthcoming, something els© would be forthcoming. They were quite prepared for any eventuality.
Other speakers supported direct action, and warned the other unions that unless they supported the seamen's claims everyone would suffer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17213, 15 July 1919, Page 7
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