Indoneisa Calling: Their Struggle is Our Struggle, Their Winning is Our Winning

Indonesia Calling, Indonesia Calling

With the sound of gun banging, the freedom fighters who were in Australia heard voices from their homeland, where they were required to keep fighting for the independence of the Indonesian nation to hold back Dutch ships carrying weapons against Indonesia. Now clashes are real, wharf workers are leaving ship after ship in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney in all Australian ports. The black ban has spread as other unions have joined forces. Shipping employees disobeyed Dutch orders. 

Australian sailors were involved from the start, then they were joined by 11 crew members of the British ship, moreton bay, who preferred to leave their ships rather than transport troops to Java. Letters of support came from Harry Bridges, President of the American Longshoreman's Union and from China, India, Malaya, New Zealand and Canadian seafarers and dock workers.

Along the wharf all the boats are stationary, all workers from every country support the action of Australian workers. The time has come for the voices of the leaders who support the Atlantic Charter, Pandit Nehru and Jinnah from India, Manuilsky and Vyshinsky from the Soviet Union and President Romulo from the Philippines who joined in protesting with the armed forces to suppress the Indonesian nation. Actions taken by other countries are things that really deserve to be appreciated and always remembered because of the very high solidarity and mutual support for one another.

In the biggest meeting in Domain, a soldier again reported that the Indonesian people had proven they could lead their own country. Also not forgetting, the representatives of the Indonesian nation also expressed their gratitude to other countries that had helped detain ships containing weapons against the Indonesian nation.

While at the Indonesian Seafarers' Union office, Max Sekantu and Tukliwan inspected the ships that did not sail, namely: Verspijk black, Van der Lin black, Pahud black, Tosari black, Tasman black, Jansen and Bontekoe black, Van Swoll. -black, Van Heutsz-black, Swarten-one detached, with Indian crew. Not long after, we went to try to catch the ship. Because almost everyone probably did not know what this one ship meant, the ship violated the prohibition, namely the Dutch succeeded in sneaking in by placing an Indian crew. 

The workers who chased the ship also tried very hard so that the weapons did not reach Indonesia. And finally the crew of the Indian ship returned to Australia, they managed to make the ship turn around and stop its journey to Indonesia. Then they all held a celebratory gathering on a nearby street corner near the harbor in Australia.

Secretary General of the Waterside Workers Federation, Jim Healey. Declared by Britain and America and agreed by Russia there are principles that must be applied in the Pacific region and for the Indonesian Nation. Together with the Indonesian nation, we will do our best to destroy all efforts of Dutch imperialism. Then the Chinese sailors raised funds again, which brought their contribution to the Indonesian Nation to 1100. Chinese citizens also support the Indonesian national movement. 

After that, Indonesia and its allies moved forward, namely the nation of 5 countries that had united and moved towards other battles, and under them under the floating bridges the ships did not sail, the ships did not sail so that the new republic ( Indonesian independence) can live.