DECLARED BLACK
« STOPPAGE OF WORK ON STEAMERS VOLUMNIA CASE “DISGRACE TO CIVILISATION” (Rec. March 24, 1.20 a.m.) Melbourne, March 23. During the hearing of an application to the Arbitration Court by the Dockers and Ship Painters' Union for a new award, the Deputy-President of the Court (Sir John Quick), referring to a telegram from Sydney that the donkeymen and riggers had ceased work on the Eromanga because the Seamen s Union had declared the vessel black, said that he considered the Volumma case a disgrace to civilisation. Unfortunately the Court had no jurisdiction ever a foreign crew on a foreign ship. The union’s representative stated that he had instructed the Sydney branch to resume work, and members of the union were now back at work on the Eromanga. . Sir John Quick added that Parliament had power under the Commonwealth Constitution to pass laws protecting ships and traders to Australia from outrages that were worse than bushranging.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 24 March 1925, Page 7
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157DECLARED BLACK Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 24 March 1925, Page 7
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