New Zealand Delegate Arrives

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14685, 27 November 1913, Page 5

New Zealand Delegate Arrives

COINFEREINDB WITH UNION SiEICRiETA'RIES.

CLEIRiKS AS -WBDAiiF. LLiBOUR'EKS

MEETING TO BE HEILO.

IU^'FOfITUWiATE PLIGHT OF STRIAm«3D PA^SEJM3EIRi9

sriSHNSBt, , koivembei' 2«.

A' delegate from tine, New Zealand B©am!e,ii\s Union arrived to-dar- and conferred with, the General Secretary of the Federated Seamen's Union in V^iui.sitfl.ialiaisiiia -and! . afiisijisitiant secretory of the Victorian Sfeiamen.'s Union. The buisinesisi was not divulged. A special meeting of the shipping clerks- is to be held to-night to conBiidea* the positioin of clieife who are engaged in dfeclßairgsing cargo on the Umiiom: Oom.ipany^ steameins.' The Plresident of tihe Clerk's Union states som© memibers are very sore at jb&ving 1, been asltedf to handfo cargo ; a^id some refused to do so but he in ! f3ibnncfed than to conitinue pending the Union's decision. :pn a line of ac tion. | It is reported 1 a numiber of Oraoaa's f pasßiengens on route to New Zealaind 1 are atrandedi owing to tih© disiknoatioh of steamer service and tihpugihl a num Ber have money wihicih the Nieiw Zea land! Banlffl^proVidied they have only siufficiemt reaidy cash witihouit recFon ing on strike delays to land' them' in New ZJeal'anid. .■ •• ' .'; ' ' : I Others are still' worse owing^ to all 1 arviailalble fund's bein<r exhamstied in paying boiard in Sydney.