THE SHIPPING TROUBLE

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 199, 24 August 1925, Page 7

THE SHIPPING TROUBLE

BRITISH SEAMEN STARVING. STEAMERS HELD UP. MEN ASHORE JEER. (By Cable.-I'ress Assoelntiou.-CopyrlsUt.) (neceired 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Two_ British ships i n p vdncy a ," ]d a°rSfJl thertP,ke " bo ™20W™n Many of the members of the crews who left the vessel, are i tl a paX condition, foodless and shelterless ox ce r t !D g for buch assistance as is afforded them by the seamens , organisations Ihe Orient steamer Orama. due to sail on Saturday., is among the voxels rendered idle. After the passengers had landed the ofheers hauled her into the stream amid the jeering comments of the cre*v from the shore. The Themistocles was also taken into the stream. The shipping companies arc marking time pending developments and advice from London.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) DISASTER IN COUNTRY. NEFARIOUS TROUBLE MAKERS. MR. BRUCE ON SITUATION. (Received 12.T0 p.m.i SYDNEY, this day. Mr. S. M. Bruce (Prime Minister) stated, in response to the cabled request from British shipowners and the president of the Seamen's L'nion of Britain for protection of men who desire to carry out agreed-upon contracts, that he had communicated with the Premiers of all States asking that such protection should be given. It was unthinkable, said Mr. Bruce, that we could ever admit the principle that Australians had a right to dictate what should lie the wages and conditions existing in any industry in Britain. A similar attempt on the part of British trade unionists would be wholeheartedly condemned by the very men who mc" now s-eekin" to intimidate them. Mr. Bruce urged British .-eamen not to allow themselves to 1« made the tools of extremist leaders in Australia. He s-aid that the men were striking in defiance of orders from headquarters. It ■was for the leaders of trade unionism to discipline their meml.cr?. It they did not, the Covernmeut would take- every step in its power to prevent results ■which must inevitably flow from this action. These men were bringing disaster upon the whole country.— (A and y.Z. Cable.)