SUGAR WORKERS' STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 26, 25 July 1911, Page 5

SUGAR WORKERS' STRIKE.

WIIARF LABORERS' ASSISTANCE. By QaMe —Pr«ss Association.—Copyright. Melbourne, July 24. The Wlmvf Laborers' Union lias notified the steamship owners- that its members will not handle sugar produced by free labor. A HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION. Brisbane, July 24. There was a hostile demonstration against the free laborers at Bundaberg by a large crowd of strikers. There was, however, no violence. Growers in the Mackay district resolved to co-operate with other districts in resisting tlie men's demands. ANOTHER CANE FIRE. Brisbane, July 24. There was another canei fire at Cairns, but the damage was slight. MINISTER ON THE SITUATION. UNPRECEDENTED STRIKE FEARED. Received 2ft, 12.50 a.m. Melbourne, July 24. Mr. Hughes, referring to a statement made by the chairman of the Steamship Owners'. Association, said that if the waterside workers refused to handle nonunion sugar the trouble would extend round the coast and be a worse strike than that of 1890. He said he desired to prevent such a calamity, and would leave no step untaken to prevent ii But there was something very rotten in the state of thing which permitted a great company to draw huge dividends and yet decline to pay such rates for its cane as would enable growers to pay decent wages to their men.