The Sydney Strike.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3757, 14 April 1908, Page 3

The Sydney Strike.

Sydney, April 12. The wharf labourers' strike has practically settled. The only point precluding a settlement of the strike on Friday was in connection wtih the Merchant Service Guild, but this was arranged today when agreements were signed and ratified by both parties. The coastal steamers will resume their running forthwith. The settlement provides that the coastal companies shall carry out the agreement with the men taken on during the strike, those formerly employed to return as opportunity offers. The Newcastle Company is to have the right to retain its present employees at Newcastle and Morpeth provided coastal rates are paid in lieu of a weekly wage. Preference to unionists is conceded, to operate after the present employees join the union. The engineers agree that coastal owners may, at their discretion, fill more than six steamers between the three fleets with engineers not exceeding 12, the remainder of the steamers to be manned solely by members of the Institute of Marine Engineers, who, also, are to have preference in future vacancies. The present engineers and employees will be retained.' After the termination of the present agreements the Merchant Service Guild has sitpulated that all steamers now out of commission shall be manned by members of the guild, who shall also fill vacancies as they occur. The agreement fixes the number of permanent hands on the various wharves.