MELBOURNE TIMBER STACKERS' STRIKE.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12772, 19 April 1910, Page 4

MELBOURNE TIMBER STACKERS' STRIKE.

WHARF LABOURERS' ACTION. Melbourne, April 18. In sympathy with the timber stackera's strike the Wharf Labourers Union has resolved to notify shipowners that no timber will be handled for export from to-day, but that State and inter-State vessels which arrived up to Saturday will be discharged. ABETTING A STRIKE. **> [United Pkess Association.] Wellington, April 18. Mr Haselden. S.M., is hcarinß c-bbs to-day in which Georgs Faria.id, assistant secretary to the Wharf Labourers' Union, and 49 -others, aro charged, with aiding and abetting and talcing part, in a ; strike.- . The case arises out of the cessation of work on tbe '.steamer kanaka - recently,, when the. order. waSigJven : that ; the uno of %ooks iiV 'unshipping hags of cement must" be discontinued. The men were willing to continue work if el--lowed to use hooks. It was stated that the. question of the use of hooks had never been before the Arbitration Court-flr the Conciliation Council.