SEAMEN’S BLOCKADE TO BE CALLED OFF
MELBOURNE, Nov. >8 (Recd. 11.15pm).—The Seamen’s Union’s blockade of Victoria will be called off. The combined unions committee in Melbourne this afternoon accepted the terms lor settlement of the dispute over the Essentia! Services Act. The unions also ca led off a stopwork meeting which had been summoned for tomorrow morning to enable the workers to demonstrate, outside the City Court, where summonses against railway and tramway officials were to have been heard. The unions expressed continued opposition to the Essential Services Act, and claimed that industrial unrest would continue whi e the Act remained on the Statute Book. The unions warned the State Government that if it made any attempt to enforce the provisions of the Act, or made any similar attacks on workers’ rights they would be met by the united opposition of the trades union movement.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 29 November 1948, Page 5
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