STRIKE BY SHIPS’ OFFICERS
New Deadlock In Dispute Likely
(Rec. 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 5. Shipowners said today that they would got negotiate with ships’ captains and officers on the pilotage dispute unless the officers withdrew their resignation notices. This foreshadows a possible new deadlock in the shipping dispute which could tie up the Australian coastal fleet later this month.
Ninety officers at a meeting in Sydney this afternoon decided not to withdraw their resignations. They decided instead to ask the shipowners to meet them next Monday in an effort to settle the dispute over payment for pilotage duties. About 15 captains and other officers met in Brisbane later, but the result of their meeting is not yet announced. There are to be similar meetings in other main Australian ports within the next 24 hours.
The deputy-chairman of the Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation, Mr R. A. Coutts. said today that withdrawal of resignation notices was a principle of arbitration and the shipowners would not negotiate unless this were done.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27859, 6 January 1956, Page 9
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