SETTLEMENT HOPES
EARLY END OF STRIKE, AUSTRALIAN UNION OPINION. GOOD RESPONSE OF VOLUNTEERS (Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Although thero lias been a good response to the call for Volunteer labour to man the ships, no one is being signed on. Applicants’ names are being noted for future reference.
There is now a pronounced view in union circles that steps should he taken to terminate tlie strike. It is likely that during next week-, union officials and leaders of the- Labour Parry will insist on the seamen returning to their ships independently of tha terms which may be offered by the owners. Indications are that the unions will withdraw financial support from the strikers, in which event an early collapse of the strike will be inevitable.
VOLUNTEER CREWS OFFERING. STRIKERS’ PICKETS INACTIVE. . MELBOURNE, October 22. Owing to the strike, the steamer Diogenes, from England, which was to have called at Melbourne, will go direct to Sydney. The agents of the British shipping companies state that they have received a satisfactory response to their invitation for a limited number of men to” man the ships leaving for ports outside Australia. The police were on duty outside the shipping office, which the strikers picketed, blit no attempts were made to. interfere with the men applying for j jobs. An attempt to. unload a portion of the refrigerated cargo from the steamer Orsova at Fremantle was prevented by the lumpers refusing to work the vessel, seamen having declared the derricks and cargo “black.”
MORE SENTENCES IMPOSED. ‘ CONTINUED DISOBEDIENCE. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. A further batch of British seamen, tlie majority of whom have already served terms of imprisonment, have been sentenced to a further 14 days’ imprisonment for continued wilful disobedience.
GENESIS OF THE TROUBLE. COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES. (Received This Day, 8.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The London office of a, Sydney firm has forwarded a statement by Mr Laws, General Manager of the Shipping Fedetration, in which he says it was clear that the whole attack by tlie seamen is of Communist origin. From the time the reduction in wages had been arranged until early in the month later no protesting voice was raised anywhere. Then Communist meetings commenced to be held in London. None of the speakers was a seaman and there were very few seamen in the audiences. Attack following attack succeeded to the extent of frightening the men of a certain ship not to sign articles, and the trouble then extended. The nature of the pressure brought to bear on the men was shown by the fact that in some instances men who refused to sign on at one port took train to another port and signed on there. Tlie leaders of the movement in Australia and England are known Communists.
CUTTING OFF FUEL SUPPLIES. SEAMEN’S DECISION AT SYDNEY. SYDNEY, October 22. J. A. Johnson, chairman of the British seamen’s strike committee, who was a greaser on the steamer Tairoa, was charged with continued neglect of duty. He was sentenced to imprisonment till the rising of the Court, ana ordered to pay £2 7b 6d costs. Tlie Court rose a minute later. The Seamen’s Union met to further consider the strike position. The meeting was protracted, and at times the proceedings were very turbulent and angry. It is understood that the most important decision reached was one forbidding the manning or working of colliers listed to coal overseas ships involved in the dispute. This embargo is also to apply to the supply of coal, or oil fuel, to the head supply depots. . . The latter part of the decision will affect oil-burning steamers of all lines, including the Union Company. _ The steamer Commorin arrived today from London. She came on direct from Adelaide.
HORORATA LEAVES DUNEDIN. SOME OF HER ORIGINAL CREW. DUNEDIN, October 22. Sufficient men were obtained to-day to complete the crow of the Hororata, and the vessel left Port Chalmers at 3 p.m. for Bluff. A few members of the original crew are on. hoard, but the majority are non-unionists. It is anticipated there will he no difficulty in obtaining .sufficient men to . take the Leitrim to sea. The vessel will finish her local loading at I ort Chalmers to-morrow, and is scheduled to sail on Saturday morning for Jilutt. SENTENCES AT LYTTELTON. the HORORATA TROUBLE. CTTRISTCHURCH, This Day. At Lyttelton this morning six seamen from the Hororata were chargci with combining to impede the progress of the ship, and were sentenced to six weeks in gaol.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10532, 23 October 1925, Page 5
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