THE SYDNEY STRIKE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8794, 23 April 1907, Page 2

THE SYDNEY STRIKE.

Press Association.—Copyright. Sydney, April 22. The situation in regard to the coal lumpers' trouble is becoming more acute owing to increased demand for coal. The result is that new arrivals employed find themselves unable to cope with the demand. A few more men have signed the agreement but men are not coming forward in anything like the numbers required to insure expeditious bunkering. Neither side shows any intentidn of weakening. A mass meeting resolved to appoint delegates to lay tho position before the Newcastle coal lumpers and south coast miners. Should the outcome of this be that men at other ports take any steps to sympathise, the Sydney Union trouble would become much more serious than at present. Picketing is being extensively employed. A picket persuaded numbers not to accept work under the new conditions. Policemen are stationed in the vicinity of the bureau, but so far their services have not been required. There were two isolated cases where violent methods were resorted to reported at Byrne's wharf, and tho police had to interfere to rescue a non-Unionist who was roughly handled. The second case occurred at Miller's Point.