TROUBLE INCREASING IN MELBOURNE.
UNIONISTS v. LOYALISTS
MELBOURNE, May 23
The seamen have decided that donkeymen shall i-eturn to work to enable the wharf labourers to continue unloading cargoes of coal. A terrorist party of wharf labourers has succeeded in driving all loyalists from the wharves, also assaulting several in th estreeta.
Tho strikers have informed the shipowners that as the wharves are now free of loyalists, they are prepared to continue loading and unloading if all the privileges lost as a result of the 1917 strike are restored. The ouavers have decided to suspend all work nmtil after the compulsory conference, when, if the strike is not settled, work will be resumed by loyalists under police protection.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17579, 24 May 1919, Page 9
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118TROUBLE INCREASING IN MELBOURNE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17579, 24 May 1919, Page 9
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