COLLAPSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 253, 26 October 1931, Page 7

COLLAPSING.

ITALIAN STRIKE.

fjjjcret Inquiries Disclose "Red" plot to Wreck Industry.

-UNIONISTS DISAGREE,

"ited P.A-Electric Telegraph-Copyright)

(Received 12.30 p.rnr) u : ,-■ SYDNEY, this day,

Deve'6praents at the week-end in'diafG that the shipping strike is cdl- '' voids'- Union opposition' to. the tike continues in'other States and in Sydney. '•'Two ships left Newcastle yesterday, ' jonlv two interstate vessels now port, while in Brisbane all •■ _'\ s tal : 'a.nd inter-State ships departed "'without-incident. : .: . '■ inquiries by.Federal investiga(nrTdiscloseihat the shipping strike is ■ i 'first of va series of transport stop-'Uwtf-planiied by the Australian Com-. ■ 1" ° njst international,. under instructions ■y from '.Moscow. \ .jti plins arc first to capture the con- '".■'■ Li 0 { the unions by quiet rank and file venetratioh; and secondly to disorganise , L'/tey industries at every sign of,, a' 'jjove. tQ capitalist rehabilitation.-. ■';. ■•' Tt;is stated that althbugh the Federal • roVernment', has always opposed the (Vim'es-Actrit will be promptly applied ' it the occasion arises out of violence or ' intimidation •by strikers or strike- pro-

'"jiioters.-'■•.: - • The' 'Adelaide Steam Ship Company's '. Vessel'Sianunda sailed on Saturday after- ■■' nSon'for West Australia. She was moved' from' the, Wharf to an anchorage at Neutral-Bay ; '"'to' prevent possible defections among the'erew, as a result of the Strike-leaders' urgings. .-. .' .': A ferry'steamer took the passengers ; 'to the'Manunda, which got away w.ith- ■ <out.:Py\ trouble- v.. ;' t -WhenHhe.Manunda sailed her master, l : Ca'ptain : $unter, was informed that three % Communist's, were among the', passengers •frho'm'iglit try : . to get. the, crew, to leave ■the" ship at Melbourne.'Captain Sunter, w& : was'formerly. well known in the ; ring, replied:. "You may safely i;leaver4hein\to me" . ..;;•..'• ';.';,

' -Australian -"Airways, '"Limited; an-, ''■'• nounce? that df shipping is ., held .up ;.it ' ' will maintain mail services' to Tasmania. The crew of the cargo vessel Macumba '■ left 1 tte ship'on. Friday night, when their ■ notice to. the owners, the Aus- T .:■ tralasian. United Steam Navigation . Cdnipanyj Limited, expired. .. ■ This; was • the'first -real test ) of the attitude of the. f:- men to the 'decision taken on Thursday' v at tfie meeting of; the Sea-men's Union; ;