INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 57, 21 October 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

SHIPPING TROUBLE. Sydney T , October 20. Strike affairs are quiet. Vessels are tied up as they arrive, and coal lumpers continue hunkering. The Cains Cooperative Company, owners of a number of small coasting vessels, have conceded the mcn ? s demands. Efforts are being made to secure a compromise to allow the Paloona’s cargo of apples from Hobart to be unloaded, for fear of spoiling. The position in respect to the wharf labourers is unchanged. Tiie labourers refused to unload the Paloona’s apples, of which there are ten thousand cases. It is now feared they will bo allowed to rot. The fruit merchants offered to-guarantee the extra threepence per hour demanded, but have not yet received a reply from the strikers. Melbourne, October 20. The shipowners have wired the Wharf Labourers’ Union to supply, labour with which to work cargo, as provided for in the agreement, under penalty of a thousand pounds- The Registrar also wired the union leaders to attend a conference on Monday. (Received 21, 9.35 a.m.) Sydney, October 21.

The wharf labourers were not unanimous in a desire to continue the strike. The meeting yesterday was held with the object of appointing pickets, but it broke up in disorder without any definite action. The only work done at the interstate wharf has been the unloading of small quantities of perishable cargo and live stock by sailors and consignees.

Melbourne, October 21. A meeting of the Steamship Owners’ Federation decided to refuse cargo for Sydney until the strike was set-