NEW PROPOSALS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 8

NEW PROPOSALS.

SHIPPING DISPUTE. MEETINGS AT ALL PORTS. SEAMEN TO DECIDE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Proposals from the conference between the representatives of the shipowners, tho Alliance of Labour, and the Cooks and Stewards' Union, were considered at a meeting of the Seamen's Union this morning, and it is understood ihat these proposals are being considered also at meetings of tho Seamen's Union at Auckland and Lyttelton to-day, and will bo considered at Dunedin tomorrow.

No announcements are probable until the result of all the meetings is known.

An official announcement that there were high hopes of a satisfactory settlement of the shipping dispute was made last evening upon the adjournment until to-day of a meeting of the committee which has been sitting' as a result of a conference between the interested parties.

Tlio ferry steamers sailed for Lyttelton and Nelson at the usual times. All coastal boats in tlio harbour, with the exception of the Rangatira, which arrived yesterday morning from Lyttelton, were yesterday simply lying at the wharves. With practically no cargo operations there were no incidents oil the wharves or ill the vicinity. A heavy barricade on the Thorndon breastwork to keep all unauthorised persons oil' that portion of the wharves, has been nearly completed by Harbour Board employees. Most of the other wharves are equipped with permanent gates. It has been stated that the watersido workers met the employers on Tuesday, but Mr. J. Roberts, of the Watersiders' Federation, deities that any such conference took place. The attitude generally lias been that watersiders so far have declined to work cargoes on ships not manned by union crews where union crews have been displaced.