FEELING AGAINST STRIKE

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1928, Page 9

FEELING AGAINST STRIKE

EXTENSION PLANS MAY FAHj CARTERS PROBABLY OPPOSE RAILWAY LINES GUARDED SYDNEY FEELING RUNS HIGH By Telegraph - Press Assn.—Copyrlg'-*. Australian Press Association. Received Oct. 10, 7.5 p.m. Melbourne, Oct. 10. Plans being made by the central strike committee to withdraw members of the Engine-drivers’ and Firemen’s Association from tug-boats and lighters will probably not succeed, as these men have already opposed the strike. Carters meet to-night, but it is believed that instead of resolving to join the strike they will demand the watersiders should first take a secret ballot among their own members to see if they really favour continuing what is regarded as a honeless fight. The train service from the city to Port Melbourne was suspended for nearly two hours late last night owing to reports that a bomb outrage was planned against trains carrying free wharf workers. Police and railway authorities guarded the line carefully, and a thorough search revealed nothing sinister. Theatre patrons and others going home towards midnight when the trains resumed, travelled with uneasy minds and tense nerves. The line was strongly guarded all night. While a mass meeting of strikers was in progress this morning nineteen hundred volunteers were working thirty oversea and inter-State ships. Over 35,000 enrolments have been made already, including a number of unionist worke’rs from Queensland. There are still 26 idle inter-State ships at Melbourne. Exciting moments marked a meeting of the Waterside Federation at Sydney to-day. Feeling ran high between those favouring the extension of the waterside trouble and those contending that the Sydney men should continue to work all vessels. It is understood the furniture of the meeting hall was roughly handled. The men dispersed in disorder.