EX-SOLDIERS ENGAGED
WHARF WORK AT MELBOURNE MELBOURNE, Feb. 20. Shipowners to-day engaged six gangs of 18 men each for work on the waterfront. This was the first pickup since judgment was given by the High Court that the regulations providing for preference to waterside work to unionists were valid. As the men engaged to-day were volunteers who are returned soldiers and who, according to the definition of the Act, are allowed equal preference with members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation. No members of the federation were engaged. No comment was made by shipowners to-day, beyond the statement that they would do their best to protect the interests of the men who had served them at a time when unionists refused work under (ho terras imposed by the Arbitration Court.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 79, 12 March 1931, Page 7
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