THE WATERSIDE STRIKE;

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12218, 15 April 1908, Page 2

THE WATERSIDE STRIKE;

A SETtEeMENT. ; TROUBLE A t"~NE WCASTLE; (Per United Press Association.]! SydneyJ April,l4. The waterside strike has. been settled. The Seamen's Union baa agr'edd to coastal shipowners having a month to arrange for non-union crews being brought together in six steamers. Meantime unionists and non-unionists will work together on the vessels. Another labor trouble has cropped up at Newoastle, where 33 out of 38 non-unionists employed on the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company's boats have struck on,the ■ ground that under the new agree* ment they should be paid casual 1 wages instead of weekly wages. 1 Eleven hands returned to work, and the places of the otheis were filled by unionists.