THE SHIPPING TROUBLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 295, 13 December 1922, Page 7

THE SHIPPING TROUBLE.

j ALLEGED BREACH OF AWARD. ' FIFTY-ONE SEAMEN CHARGED. j A:i«ing out of the trouble with the I shipping. 51 seamen have been .-narged lat the inMswe of tho Inspector of I Award* under section V of the Indus ; trial conciliation and Arbitration Act. "thai the defendant being a party to and bound by an award ot'the Court of j Arbitration to wit. the Northern. Wcl- ; lingtou .nnd Otago and Southland Inj littstrial District Seamen's and Firemen's j Award, dated the 10th 01 October. |©-». i did 'become a pain t.. an unlawful 1 strike." | The ,ase; were called at the Magi* ; trate's Conn thi- morning, before Mr, !V. C. ( titten. S.M. The'inspect..: ~f ; Awards was represented by M . Filter j son. and the defendant* hv Mr. Holm--1 ilen. • Mr. I utten remarked. "You are iii.-c i people to bring along a case like this I just immediately before the holidays." j Mr. Paterson said the Inspector of Awards should not be blamed for that. ■but the men who stopped vvoik nt such a time who created the trouble. Air. Patersons said lie proposed to .-all aboir, II witnesses, but they would not ail he available for this hearing- He wouid have to ask .in adjournment till next week to conclude his evidence. His 1 trouble was that most of the witnesses were masters or other officers of coastal vessels, and some wore not ill port. The first, eases taken were against four men belonging to lhr Union Steamship Company's Kaltuna. The master of the steamer. Captain Stewart, -tated that the vessel arrived at Auckland from Westport on November 12. < in the following day the crew attended a stopwork meeting and on their return gave notice to leave. They did not give any reason for their action. Three of the four men Vharged originally joined the steamer at Auckland. •Proceedings were brought against eleven men from the Kurow. Captain Flynn said that on Xovember 2 hi* crew gave notice, the stokehold men informing tbe chief pnginepr and tbe deck hands personally waiting on him in a body. The spokesman told him that they did not care to work under the new award. One of the men further stated that they had to stand by the crowd. Regarding five members of the crew of thp Northern Steamship Company's Ngapuhi. who were also charged. Capt. Haultain said that his crew gave notice on October 31 and there were 15 of them altogether. They sent two representatives to witness and they gave as tbeir reason that they would not work under the new award. Auckland was the men's borne port and they were all paid off on November 1. (Proceeding.) FINED FOR ASSAULT. (Bt Telegrapli. -"w«« Association.! XBL/SOX, this day. A unionist seaman, formerly on a vessel trading from Nelson, assaulted one of the voluntary crew of the vessel on Port Road. Thi magistrate took a serious view of the offence, and a fine of £3 was imposed. TASMANIA'S SALUNGS. ilteceived 10.30 a.m.l SYDNEY, this day. The AYhangape, loading for New Zealand, is expected to sail at noon. The company expects that four vessels engaged in the Tasmanian trade will sail in a few days.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) ' KOROMIKO SAILS. j 0 a.m.) j SYDNEY, this day. j The Koromiko sailed from Newcastle j yesterday manned by volunteer labour, j No trouble was experienced.—A. and N.Z. |