NO SETTLEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 7

NO SETTLEMENT.

COOKS' DISPUTE. Conference At Melbourne Abortive. OWNERS STAND FIRM. (Received 12 noon.) MELBOURNE, this day. The confcrence between the executive of the Council of Trade Unions and the representatives of the marine unions and the shipowners discussed the position of the cooks strike for an hour and a-half but nothing in the direction of a settlement was achieved. The owners stood firmly by the terms already stated. The unions' committees will me.it to-day to discuss the outcome of the conference and to decide on their next move. Meanwhile hundreds of men opposed to the strike are idle and helpless.

The Trades Union Council is unable to obtain replies to its messages to Mr. J. Tudehope, general secretary of the Cooks' Union, who is recalcitrant, and has declined to allow his to be represented at the conference with shipowners.

The deputy chairman of the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association, Mr. Elford, stated that there was full and free discussion by the conference, and the shipowners had pointed out to thp Trades Union representatives that the offer they had made to the cook 3 lacked nothing they enjoyed under the former award.

Mr. Jacob Johnson, secretary of tlie Australian Seamen's Union, who has returned to Sydney, declared that the Council of Trades Unions were a lot of bushrangers who were taking part in the dispute without the cooks' authority, while some Melbourne officials appeared to be the willing tools of the shipowners. COOKS DECIDED. NO INTERFERENCE BY T.U.C. SYDNEY, May 21. At the conclusion of a meeting of marine cooks in Sydney to-day the secretary, Mr. J. Tudehope, announced that it had unanimously reaffirmed the Attitude of the union that it would not tolerate the interference of the Australian and New Zealand Council cf Trades Unions in the dispute without the consent of the union. The strike position is therefore unchanged.