STRIKE EXTENDED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 72, 7 January 1936, Page 5

STRIKE EXTENDED

ALL VESSELS TO BE INVOLVED. SYDNEY SEAMEN'S DECISION. COOPERATION BY THE MINERS. (United Press Association—-Copyright.) SYDNEY, Jan. 6. With only two dissentients, a mass meeting of seamen decided to call out the crews of all vessels under the jurisdiction of the union, thus involving all coastal vessels, tugs, dredges, and trawlers manned by union members. It was stated that the action was taken in order to cooperate fully with the mining unions, which were striving for a general transport hold-up until the seamen's licensing system was withdrawn. It was also stated that the miners would undertake to remain out 'until the Transport Workers' Act and the licensing regulations were withdrawn from watersiders. In other states meetings were also held and it was agreed that the seamen would not return to work until the miners had been consulted should a general hold-up be decided on when the miners meet on Wednesday. TWO VOLUNTEERS INJURED. OUTRAGES AT NEWCASTLE. (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A message from Newcastle states that attacks were made on two members of the crew of the steamer Kooyong, which left Newcastle on December 21 with a volunteer crew. Robert McGill, aged 34, a cook, was attacked by a number of men and punched. He was sent to hospital.

Another member of the crew was in a taxi .which was stoned by a mob, the windows being smashed and the passenger injured.

LAND AND MARINE TRANSPORT MEN. NOT LIKELY TO BE INVOLVED. SYDNEY, January 6. A discussion at a meeting of the Land and Marine Transport Unions indicated that they are not likely to become directly involved beyond providing financial assistance. Representatives /of these unions informed the leaders of the strike and the miners' representatives that they could not commit their organisations, but would submit the question of participation in the strike to mass meetings of members.. The men employed on tugs and small vessels on the harbour are members of the Firemen's and Deckhands' Association, and it is considered unlikely that they will lie affected by the strike. WATERSIDERS BOYCOTT THE AORANGI. CREW WORKING THE CARGO. AUCKLAND, January 6. There was no response by waterside workers when- a call was made for labour to work the Aorangi on her arrival from Sydney. The working of the cargo was done by the shore staff of the Union Steam Ship Company, assisted by volunteers and .the crew of the ship. Captain Hill said there was no difficulty in obtaining a crew for the ship at Sydney. There were enough men offering to man her twice over. "It seems, strange," he said, "that watersiders loaded us in Sydney, and yet when we come to Auckland the watersiders here refuse to work us."