SHIPPING STRIKE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 70, 4 January 1936, Page 5

SHIPPING STRIKE

DELEGATES CANNOT SAIL. REFUSAL OF PERMISSION. DECLINED TO PROVIDE BOND. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Two delegates appointed by the shipping strike committee to visit New Zealand to obtain financial and moral support from the New Zealand Seamen’s Union were refused permission to sail by the Monowai. It appears that the delegates declined to provide a bond of £IOO each that they would not be a charge on tho country during their stay in New Zealand. VOLUNTEERS MANNING SHIPS. MINERS DISCUSS STOPPAGE. SYDNEY", January 3. A meeting of executives of all mining unions unanimously decided to call meetings of mine workers on all Australian fields on Wednesday to discuss a recommendation that a general stoppage be instituted at all pits, and a demand be made that the licensing system for seamen be withdrawn before they return to work. Only two of 21 ships affected by the strike in Melbourne are now without crews. A mass meeting of seamen there decided that all seamen working alongside ships, such as watchmen, should leave their jobs. The fifth attack on volunteer seamen since licensing began occurred to-da3 7 , when a. man from a freighter was knocked down and kicked until he was rescued by the police. His assailants escaped. “There will be no variation in the Government’s policy. The licensing system has come to sta3 7 ,” declared Mr R. G. Menzies (Federal AttorneyGeneral) to-day.