SYDNEY STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1272, 30 October 1911, Page 5

SYDNEY STRIKE.

"NO SURRENDER."

MOVEMENT FOR PROSECUTION MR. CARMICHAEL'S EFFORTS. Ily Telecraph—Press Association -Copyrichi Sydney, October 28. Tho dominant note in shipping circles is "no 'surrender." The companies claim they have treated the men generously. Wharf labourers ill other 'slates arc working without complaints under tho agreement. A meeting of strikers and wharf labourers generally is to bo held to-night' to review Iho situation. The Crown Solicitor is obtaining information with a view to possible prosecutions of strikers under the Industrial Disputes Act. About 250 names havo been taken. Mr. A. C. Carinichael, Minister for Labour, in an interview, said that a section of the press was clamouring for vindictive measures against tlia men. This was not tho tirno for impotent vengeance, but for tho adoption of measures to temporarily relievo the pressure. Ho was working at full pressure with this object. Every effort is being mado to unload tho Moeraki before her departure for Wellington. Sho takes no outward freight, excepting probably a small quantity of fruit. At a meeting of produce merchants it was resolved to iind all possible assistance for tho coastal shipping companies in unloading cargocs during the strike. Ono speaker advocated paying the men's demands and the companies raising rates. Mr. AV. H. Hughes, Federal AttorneyGeneral, has not returned. The other delegates to the Melbourne conference liavo returned, and they deny that their telegram, read at tho recent strike meeting, was intended to advise the men to resume work. They only meant to convey what might happen in the event of the men not returning. LIMIT OF CONCESSIONS. SHIPOWNER'S VIEW. Melbourne, October 28. A leading shipowner staled that' tho companies had reached the limit of their concessions to the men. If the strike extends it was not only going to affect transport. The shipowners had had offers of support from some very powerful employers' unions. ATTITUDE OF THE OWNERS. MINISTERIAL PROPOSAL DECLINED. (Ree. October 30, 0.20 a.m.) Sydney, October 29. The coastal steam ship owners discussed tho proposal of Mr. Carinichael, Minister for labour, that they should act as stevedores. It was resolved that tho Association was prepared and anxious that tho men should resume undor tho existing agreement and would overlook any breaches of tho agreement, but any arrangement for paying extra wages was a matter for the Government to determino in the interests of the public. If mon desired a conference the association was prepared to meet them. The union ofiicials state that they are setting their faces against any extension of the strike, and are endeavouring to keep the men at work on all boats running in accordance with tho agreement between the wharf labourers and tho companies. The Union Company's liner Mooraki, which left on Saturday for Wellington, took little cargo beyond a small consignment of fruit.