OVER EXTENSION OF WATERSIDE STRIKE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18586, 11 October 1928, Page 5

OVER EXTENSION OF WATERSIDE STRIKE.

UNIONS UNDECIDED

trains delayed while LINES ARE SEARCHED FOR RUMOURED BOMBS.

(United Press .Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, October 10. A meeting of the Waterside Federation in Sydney to-day was marked by exciting njoments. Feeling ran high between those favouring an ’ extension of the waterside trouble and those contending that the Sydney men shoqld continue to work all vessels. It is understood that the furniture of the rr eting hall was roughly handled.: The men dispersed in disorder. At Melbourne plans are being made by the Central Strike Committee to withdraw members of the Engine Drivers and . Firemen’s' Association from tugboats and lighters, but they are unlikely to succeed, as these men are already opposed to the strike. The carters will meet tcnnight, but it is believed that they, instead of resolving to join the strike at once, will demand that the watersiders should first take a secret ballot of their own members, to see if they really. favour continuing what is regarded as a hopeless fight. The train service from the city to Port Melbourne was suspended nearly two hours late last night, owing to reports that bomb outrages had been 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 1900 volunteers were working thirty oversea and inter-State ships. Over 3500 enrolments have begp made already, including a number of unionist workers from Queensland. There are still twenty-six idle inter-State ships at Melbourne.—Australian Press Association.