GREAT DISASTER AVERTED.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13410, 6 March 1914, Page 5

GREAT DISASTER AVERTED.

(Received March 5, 9.30 p.m.)

Melbourne, March 5

Mr. Justice Higgins, in adjourning the wharf labourers' case until Menday, congratulated the employers a«rf the union loaders, and above all, tho public, that the threatened disaster had been averted. The shipowners exercised wise patience in not taking certain steps which would have precinit.it* ed a general struggle much greaiet than tho New Zealand striko.