SEAMEN'S strikes are spreading. The success of the action of the Seamen's Union in Sydney has stimulated the men in other colonies to follow their example, and there are not wanting indications that a general organization exists whose ramifications extend throughout all the principal ports of the colonies. Special cable despatches from Melbourne received to-day announce a strike amongst the seamen of that port to secure £7 per month for the voyage to England, and £6 all round. The movement has now spread to New Zealand, where much sympathy was felt for the Sydney seamen in their struggle with the A.S.N. Company, and whence considerable subscriptions were transmitted for their relief. To-day the crew ot the s.s. Argyle, whose articles have expired, struck for £7 per month, and we learn that the men on board the Rowena and other steamers have already struck, or are about to do so. It will probably transpire that concerted action has been arranged all over the colonies.
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Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2717, 7 January 1879, Page 2
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