6 OCTOBER 1928, Page 3

: The dockers' strike in Australia is so confusing that

it is impossible to disentangle all the facts. Some of the strike .leaders change their policy from day to day, and as the instructions issued to the trade unionists are by no means invariably obeyed, there is an unceasing play of cross purposes: It is enough to say in general that when the trade unionists had thrown over the Arbitration Award which they had accepted and which had the force of law, there was nothing for it but for the Federal. Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, to vindicate the law. A minority has been trying by anti-Parliamentary and illegal action to compel the majority to surrender its will. Mr. Bruce promptly drafted the Transport Workers' Act and secured its rapid passage through all its stages.