LOST HIS JOB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 9

LOST HIS JOB.

JACOB JOHNSON.

Seamen Recall Secretary at

Special Meeting.

MILITANT IS APPOINTED. United Press Association. —Copyright. SYDNEY, December 27. A special meeting of the Seamen's Union to-day "recalled" Mr. Jacob Johnson from his office as general secretary and appointed the militant strike leader, Mr. Joseph Keenan, in his stead pending the result of the ballot for office-bearers, which will be announced in January. Mr. Johnson was thrown out of a mass meeting last Monday and injured, when urging that the colliers' crews should return to work.

The strike committee is arranging for the distribution of food relief to married seamen. Men cannot obtain food relic* through the Government channels unless they can show that they are genuinely unemployed.

Although there is little doubt that the crew of the Aorangi will give notice upon the ship's arrival to-morrow, the owners do not anticipate much difficulty in obtaining a volunteer crew to enable the vessel to sail for Vancouver on January 2.

The Tasmanian Premier, Mr. A. G. Ogilvie, who is a Labour politician, declared that the strike had caused serious loss to Tasmania, which was looking forward to record tourist traffic. His State was always a heavy loser when the transport services with the mainland were dislocated. He advocates a Commonwealth-owned shipping service for Tasmania, manned by crews enjoying the same conditions as employees of the public service.