SYDNEY WHARF STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 111, 31 October 1911, Page 5

SYDNEY WHARF STRIKE.

ANOTHER CONFERENCE SUMMONED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, October 30. Wheat loaders refused to load the steamer Wollowra, and the crew also declined to put the wheat aboard. The vessel sailed without a cargo. Mr. Justice Higgins has summoned another compulsory conference of the Wharf Laborers' and Waterside Workers' Unions and the Steamship Owners' Association at Melbourne this afternoon with the object of preventing the strike spreading beyond New South Wales.

A meeting of the wharf laborers' executive decided to recommend to the forthcoming meeting of members that the Sydney strike be condemned. STEAMERS HELD UP. LARGE QUANTITY OF PRODUCE AFFECTED. Received 30, ■ 9.'20 p.m, Sydney, October 30. The crews of the Adelaide Company's ore steamers, Pardoo, Lammeroo , and Winfield, held up by the strike, have been paid off, and the steamers are lying in the stream. A good portion of their cargoes are aboard. The wheat handlers are working in the deep-sea vessels. Among the large quantity of produce affected are 3000 bags of new crop potatoes in the North Coast Company's steamers. NO DEVELOPMENTS. LUMPERS IN GLOVES. Received 31', 12.5 a.m. Sydney, October 30. There are no important strike developments. Both sides are in a waiting attitude. A number of inter-State coastal vessels have arrived during the past couple of days, and are held up for crews. Permanent wharf hands and clerks, are doing their best to handle perishable portions of the cargoes. Many of the clerks take the precaution to wear gloves to prevent spoiling their hands.

THE COMPULSORY CONFERENCE. , Received 31, 12.5 a.m. Melbourne, October 30. After the compulsory conference of representatives of the Steamship Owners' Association and the Wharf Laborers' and Waterside Workers' Unions, summoned by Mr. Justice Higgins, the Industrial Registrar announced that the Victorian and Queensland unions were the only two represented, because outside New South Wales they were the only States working under the existing agreement. They had agreed to strongly urge the Sydney men to resume and to loyally abide by the agreement. They also pledged themselves to do their ut-

most to prevent the spread of the strike to other states. CO-OPERATION IN AUCKLAND. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Yesterday. The waterside workers declined to hind passengers' luggage put ashore by a vessel's crew.