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SIX INTERSTATE VESSELS.
NO ENGAGING 07 VOLUNTEERS.
DECISION OF SEAMEN AWAITED.
(United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.
The crews of six inter-State vessels, including one passenger ship, gave notice upon arrival at Sydney during the week-end.
No attempt is to be made to dispatch the ships with volunteer labour until the results of the meeting of the Seamen’s Union to-day is known. The owners anticipate that a move will be made at the meeting to lift the ban on coastal vessels.
The secretary of the Newcastle seamen’s strike committee declares that thugs intent upon robbery, and not seaman, are responsible for the attacks on volunteers. “They feel safe in the knowledge that the seamen will be blamed,” he said. Jn Brisbane yesterday the crews of dredges, barges, pleasure steamers, and tugs decided not to strike, although they voted confidence in the strike committee and imposed upon themselves a levy of 5 per cent, of their wages in support of the strikers.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 77, 13 January 1936, Page 5
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