Seamen Ordered To Withdraw Pickets

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32032, 5 July 1969, Page 14

Seamen Ordered To Withdraw Pickets

(New Zealand Prest Association)

AUCKLAND, July 4. The owners of the British , freighter Hudson Deep have been granted an interim injunction against the Seamen’s Union to prevent its members from picketing the vessel or in any other way preventing its being made ready for sea.

Seamen have been picketing the sugar carrier for the last few days during its annual sqrVey to -press their claim that the ship should have a New land crew. ■ • ’ The injunction to prevent their aotton jaas granted by Mr Justtce Sprtght in Audiland today afftl took effect from 3 p.m, , . . .Tonight, theseamen had removed? their pickets but union i officials declined to comment. <' . Mr J. & Parker, marine superiqiendtlit.for*thtf/-Hud-son Shipping Company, said tonight that although the seamen ■ had removed their pickets, they had not removed

their black-listing of (he ship, The fitters who had been working on the ship were still unwilling to return to work until the black-listing had been lifted. y . But, he said, this problem

seemed to be mainly a communications break-down. It was hoped, said Mr Parker, to resume working on the ship over the week-end. Efforts were being made to persuade the men to return.