COAL FOR THE SHIPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 261, 4 November 1925, Page 7

COAL FOR THE SHIPS.

THE GOVERNMENT FIRM. FARMERS GUARD LABOURERS. ALL QUIET AT FREMANTLE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. Following on the refusal of the railwaymen at Bowen to deliver coal to the wharves the Premier has announced that the Government would be compelled to take steps to see its authority is not undermined. The Premier had previously threatened the men with dismissal if they refused to handle the coal. Work is proceeding quietly at Cairns, and watersiders are working cargo under the protection of farmers after the latter's rout of the Communists.. A message from Perth says the situation at Frementale is quiet. The seamen of the Orsova have agreed to accept the owner's terms and to r-eturn to work. CRIMINALS AT WORK. STEAMER LINES CUT. BRISBANE, November 3. At an early hour this morning it was discovered that someone had cut the mooring lines of the steamer Autolycus and set her adrift. Fortunately the tide was slack or the vessel might have swung out and drifted on the mud of the opposite bank. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.) ARMING THE POLICE. NO FIGHTING LIKELY. PERTH, November 3. The police at Fremantle have been armed with rifles and bayonets to withstand a further onslaught 6hould one eventuate. This is thought to he unlikely in view of the severe handling the strikers received yesterday.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) THE ULIMAROA DISPUTE. ASCANTUS SAILS. SYDNEY, November 3. Notwithstanding the fact that the seamen have offered) to refer the dispute regarding the Ulimaroa to a conciliation board, there is little likelihood of the vessel being immediately commissioned. The Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association has informed the Seamen's Union that it cannot now consider the case of the Ulimaroa until-the union undertakes, unconditionally, to man the Karoola, Werribee and Barwon, which are also held up. A message from Adelaide says that after two months' delay the steamer Ascanius sailed to-day. She is being stoked by her stewards. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.) POSITION FOR WALSH. NEW BRITISH UNION. LONDON November' 3. . The secretary of the 'Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union, which is a rival to Mr. Havelock Wilson's British Sailors' and Firemen's Union, states that he knows nothing of the story emanating from Australia to the effect that Tom Walsh is coming to England to form a new seamen's union. His union did not send Walsh any invitation.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)