SEAMEN LOGGED IN AUSTRALIA
DEADLOCK IN MELBOURNE EARLY 7 SETTLEMENT NOT EXPECTED (Rec. 10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, May 28. “We are ready for war if you are," said Mr W. Bird, secretary of the Victorian Seamen's Union, to shipowners after a compulsory conference failed to bring settlement of the present shipping deadlock. He threatened to bring the port of Melbourne to a standstill as a protest against the logging of men who attended an unauthorised stopwork meeting last Tuesday.
The secretary of the Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association (Mr J. A. Brampton) told the Conciliation Commissioner that the loggings had been made under the Navigation Act and that the Maritime Industry Commission was the only body which could deal with them.
Although the stoppage in Newcastle has been called off there now appears to be no hope of an early settlement in Melbourne.
Strict gas rationing has been imposed in Melbourne, and the situation may grow worse as colliers arriving from Newcastle are immobilised.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26124, 29 May 1950, Page 7
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