Bruce Explains Drastic Law Designed To Stop Strikes On Australian Waterfront.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18577, 27 September 1928, Page 11

Bruce Explains Drastic Law Designed To Stop Strikes On Australian Waterfront.

UNLICENSED MEN WILL BE UNABLE TO SECURE WORK ON THE WHARVES. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received September 27, 11 a.m.) CANBERRA, September 27. MR BRUCE, explaining the regulations under the new Transport Workers’ Act, said that these would be administered by the Marine Department of Trade and Customs, which would issue licenses to all persons desiring employment at ports where volunteer labour had been engaged, and no person without a license would in future obtain employment as a waterside worker. Steps already had been taken to apply the regulations to the ports of Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Fremantle, where the Beebv Award was being flouted, but not at Sydney, Newcastle or Albany, where the Waterside Workers’ Federation men are observing the award. Conviction of any licensed person for an assault on a fellow worker would result in the cancellation of his license. While without a license he would be unable to obtain work on the waterfront. A Bowen message states that three more railwavmen have been dismisseu ny me Queensland Government for refusing duly in connection with working trains carrying goods handled by volunteers.—Australian Press Association.