WATER-FRONT TROUBLE.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 151, 12 September 1928, Page 2

WATER-FRONT TROUBLE.

WAR DECLARED. GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE FIRM ACTION. TO PROTECT FREE LABOR. (Australian and N.Z. Preps A»»n.) (Received This day, 10.15 a.ra.) CANBERRA, This day.

The Prime Minister, referring to the waterfront trouble, informed the House of Representatives that the Government intended to take immediate firm action to enforce observance of Judge Beeby’s award. This Parliament, he added, recently pa ßße “ a measure designed to ensure obedience to awards, and the wharf workers’ present action constitutes a direct defiance of the Court. Mr Bruce commented on the incessant trouble at Queensland ports, chiefly Cairns, where produce such 88 maize and sugar was rotting owing to waterfront troubles. He said he had communicated with the Premiers of all States asking them to nnoro protection for free labor, and take such other steps as they deemc necessary to kepe the ships running, with which the Commonwealth Government would afford the fullest cooperation. Mr Bruce telegraphed the Waterside Federation a solemn warning embodying the Government’s intention 8 -