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WHARF LABORERS DEFY i
STEVEDORE MID '
STOP-WORK MEETING AT ' 4
LEICHHARDT STADIUM .,'4.
SYDNEY, Tuesday — Defying the Stevedor
ing industry Board, 7000 wharf laborers stopped.;
work today for an unauthorised stop-work meeting.
f)NLY about 4000 attended the
meeting at Lelehhardt Sta
dium, which was called to dis
cuss the Federal Government's
Communist Party Dissolution
Bill. ' .
Sixty ships .'in Sydney Harbor
were Idle as a' result of the
men's action. '
The Stevedoring ' : Industry
Board so far has not announced
whether disciplinary action will
be taken against the watersiders.
So few men reported for work
on the wharves today that it was
impossible to form them into one
effective gang.
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