CARGOES MAY PERISH

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10530, 22 October 1925, Page 5

CARGOES MAY PERISH

NO REFRIGERATOR COAL. DEVELOPMENT AT BRISBANE. AN AGREEMENT REPUDIATED. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. When the crew of the stamer Palmer, . belonging to John Burke, Limited, learned that the ship had loaded coal for the refrigerating plant on the steamer Port Hardy, which is anchored in Whitsunday Passage, they refused to take the ship to sea, and a non-union crow was obtained. The Seamen’s Union thereupon declared all the Burke Line vessels black.

The firemen on the steamer Barrabool repudiated the agreement with the owners and refused to continue to maintain the refrigerating plant. The engineers and officers have taken over their duties in order to keep the plant working.

ALL BRITISH SHIPS AFFECTED. FARMERS’ OFFER OF MANNING. (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. The Strike Committee lias declared all British.ships in Brisbane black, and decided that they not be permitted to be supplied with coal. The farmers, throughout the State are offering to man the ships should the owners call for volunteers. CALL FOR VOLUNTEER LABOUR.

* ------ SOME RECRUITS FOR STRIKERS. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Oversea Shipping Representatives’ Association has decided to advertise for volunteer labour to work the idle ships. The firemen on the steamer Ceramic have joined the strikers. At Adelaide many striking seamen are registering at the Government Labour Bureau for employment ashore. The crew of the steamer Westmoreland has joined the strikers.

CAUSE OF THE DIFFERENCE. QUESTION OF ARBITRATION. (Received This Dav, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This'Day. The “Sydney Morning Herald” confirms the report of tho squabble in the Australian Seamen’s Union. The meeting was held in response to a requisition by a number of members, led bv Mr Johnson, who submitted a resolution demanding that the British seamen bo asked to refrain from submitting their claims to the Arbitration Court. The motion also deplored the action of Mr Walsh in advising the men to go to the Court, and made a threap that Australian seamen would withdraw all support from the strikers if the latter continued to resort to arbitration.

After a. long, heated debate, the motion was overwhelmingly defeated, and the meeting decided to continue to support the strikers.

MEASURES TO END TROUBLE. MR LANG LOOKS TO MR BRUCE. SYDNEY, October 21. In the Legislative Assembly, the Premier, Mr Lang, replying to questions whether the Government was prepared to take any steps to end the strike, said it was purely a Federal matter. Mr Bruce was responsible for the fact that no efforts had been made to settle the strike. He was the only man who had given the industrial upheaval his benediction, because it suited him for political purposes.

QUARREL BETWEEN LEADERS. DIFFERENCE ON ARBITRATION. SYDNEY, October 21. A meeting of members of the Seamen’s Union resolved to continue the unqualified support of the striking British seamen. Ways and means of assisting the strikers in holding out were considered, but not finalised, and the meeting adjourned till to-raorrow. Another version of the meeting, which was held in camera, indicates that it chiefly resolved into a squabble between Walsh and Johnson, the latter attacking Walsh for advising the men to submit to arbitration; that the meeting carried a resolution of confidence in Walsh, and that the question of continuing support to the British seamen was postponed till to-morrow. No resolution on that point was carried.