NORMAL CONDITIONS AT SYDNEY.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13892, 24 December 1913, Page 7

NORMAL CONDITIONS AT SYDNEY.

UNION PRESIDENT'S VIEWS

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Sydney, Dec 23

The wharf labourers manned the wharves without exception yesterday afternoon, creating fresh scenes of activity. During the morningl it was doubtful if normal conditions would be resumed, as there was no response to the dictum of the disbanded conference; but after dinner the old casual hands supplanted the clerks who were handling cargo.

Thfi vessels worked were the Niagara (from Vancouver), the Canada Cape, and the Maheno, receiving cargo for Auckland, together with the Riverina, which is due to sail for New Zealand ports on Wednesday. Mr D. Wai sou was re-elected president of the Northern Colliery Employees' Federation. In a speech he said that the news; that the .New Zealand strike-"'was over was received with a sense-of relief. "From tho commencement," he added, "wo regarded it as hopeless, inasmuch as no intimation was received on this side of the water until. it was apparent 'that defeat wae staring the New Zealand strikers m the face. _ The fact of the disastrous struggle in New Zealand demonstrated to the workers of Australia the necessity for an organisation in which the united wisdom of the various unions and bodies may be directed towards any trouble arising in the industrial fieid." •--