AUSTRALIAN PORTS IDLE.
EXPORT TRADE PARALYSED
THOUSANDS OF UNEMPLOYED. VITAL ISSUE AT STAKE. The overtime strike of the Australian waterside workers has developed into a very serious deadlock. In accordance with the decision of the owners there was no work on the steamers yesterday, and 135 vessels are now held up, while the number of men unemployed in the Commonwealth is estimated at 35,000. At Sydney alone 33 vessels, totalling 170,000 tons, are tied up. These include 15 wool ships. Both at that port and at Melbourne the shipping trade is completely paralysed. The labour leaders in Sydney estimate that if the trouble extends the number of unemployed in the waterside and kindred occupations in New South Wales will exceed 21,000. Should the coal mines be closed a further 25,000 men will be without work. A statement by a representative of the owners, indicates that they regard the strike as the test of a vital principle, and that there is no disposition to accept a compromise.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19810, 3 December 1927, Page 13
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166AUSTRALIAN PORTS IDLE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19810, 3 December 1927, Page 13
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