SHIPPING STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 46, 18 November 1925, Page 9

SHIPPING STRIKE

ENORMOUS LOSSES CAUSED TO BRITISH LINES INCREASE IN FREIGHTS POSSIBLE Sydney, November 17. Tlie shipping strike has practically ceased to have further significance as far as the dispatch of ships is concerned. Following the elections the shipowners are now in a position to guarantee sailings, but it will be some months before normal conditions are restored. The strike has caused enormous losses to British lines, and it will be a considerable time before shipowners are able even to consider reduction of freights or fares. Well-informed circles believe that it will not be surprising if freights are increased.—Press Assn.

POST-ELECTION GESTURE OF DEFIANCE Melbourne, November. 17. The strike has taken a fresh lease of life, the engine-room crew of the steamer Northumberland striking in sympathy with their stranded comrades. The action is regarded as merely a postelection gesture of defiance.—Press Assn.

STRIKE OVER AT SYDNEY (Rec. November 17, 9.35 p.m.) Sydney, November 17. The Labour Council has sent £250 from local funds for the sustenance of strikers in Melbourne. This practically clears the balance in Sydney, but a further instalment is due from the New South Wales branch of the Seamen’s Union.

As far as the strike at Sydney is concerned, the dispute is over. Those who are meeting and reaffirming their determination to stand firm are from vessels that have sailed.—Press Assn.

DOCKING OF HELD4JP SHIPS

MAY COMPLICATE LABOUR TROUBLE (Rec. November 17, 9.35 p.m.) Sydney, November 17. The news that several oversea vessels that have been held up in Sydney during the strike will have to be docked will probably complicate the industrial trouble. Mr. Garden, secretary of the Marine Transport Group, said to-day that it was extremelv unlikely that the unionists would agree to carry out work on vessels that were affected by the strike. The liner Themistocles will be the first vessel to be docked. Though the strike has not been officiallv declared off, the men continue to go back to the ships. Thirty more returned to the Themistocles this morning, and the rest were expected to go back in the afternoon. —Press Assn.

WATERSIDERS DECLARE CORIMAL BLACK (Rec. November 17, 9.35 p.m.) Sydney, November 17. The steamer Corrimal, on arrival from ■wen was declared black by tlie ■icrside Workers’ Federation, because :•'stand farmers had loaded sugar , ' er.—Press Assn.