MANY STRIKERS LEFT OUT IN THE COLD.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 63, 24 October 1928, Page 5

MANY STRIKERS LEFT OUT IN THE COLD.

WILL NEVER GET JOBS BACK.

WORK. ON MELBOURNE WHAItVES. MELBOURNE, Oct. 23. Two thousand volunteers are now working on the Melbourne} wharves. Only 650 ex-strikers have been reemployqd to date. It is estimated that 15U0 strikers will never get their jobs back. Hie Melbourne seamen are again shaping t.o make trouble, refusing to give steam to non-union watersiders, while union members are not allowed to offer at the pick-ups. The seamen contend the terms of the resumption have been broken. There js a likelihood that New Zealand steaniiers will be held up. Although not involved in the recent waterfront trouble, James Patrick ami Company have embarked on a profit-sharing system with the crews of their two coastal vessels, Comma! and Carclcross, says a Sydney message. The basis of the scheme has not been disclosed, hut it has been accepted by the crews, who are very happy about it. All are ox-naval men.