STEAMERS MANTED.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 202, 26 August 1919, Page 5

STEAMERS MANTED.

FIRST SAILINGS TO-DAY. CONFEEESCE ACCEPTED. MEN MARCH TO WHARVES. (By Cnblo.-ITos.s Association—Copyright.) SYDNEY, August 25. J The- Sydney w-aawn decided to-day to i man the ships immediately, on the basis of the I-Vileral (iuvornmpiit'e latest offer of a round-table euuferi'iice. They lost no time in carry!np nut tiirir resolution. Tin- men proceeded in a body to the wharves, and the shipping companies prepared ships' crews without I delay. Tho .Moeraki is expected to suil loniomm, the Majiara on Thursday, and j tho Makura a week later.—(A. and XX) CONFERENCE ON MONDAY. CREW FOR THE INGA. (Received 10.30 a.m.) MELBOITvXK, this day. j Tile round table coniciemv between {the stamen and the shipping cumpsinica i has been convened for Mau&iv next The Sydney Seamen's Union hes arranged to dispatch a crew by U,,. Mooraki u> man thu lnjiu, which is held up in WajißJUiui.— (A. aud X.Z. Cable.) I Speaking at a meeting of the Seamen's Strike Relief Committee at Sydney recently, Mr. J. Cunnitißham (Victoria) ■said he had received a telegram from Broken Hill, reading: "All cood luck to the seamen for the excellent light tliev are putting up; we'll back them to the hist ditch. Whatever you rlo. don't he j forced inio the Arbitration Court."' I'm- j eeeding, Mr. Cunningham said that Vie- ; itoria was in a terrible stale. There wa* i no coal or gas, and no trains afier 7 p.m. or on Sundays. The seamen bad been i represented as a most disorderly body.' but this was the most orderly and best I organised strike in the history of Australia. The Melbourne Trades" Hall Dis- : jputes Committee was behind the strik-r* | 'to a man, and had offered the seamen. I if their demands were not met. to call out ; .every union. The seamen did not want! them to do that. Their officials were ' I being taken away one by one, but for 1 every man gaoled another "one would take his place. Tom Walsh could not be I bought, like other men. The speaker, described the riot in Melbourne "as a I glorious sight." Over 3000 members of | the Seamen's Union went to the war as soldiers, in troopships. -Our strike m your strike," continued the speaker, -and if we »r> down you will go down also.' .