COOKS’ DISPUTE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 186, 9 May 1928, Page 11

COOKS’ DISPUTE

SUSPENDED AWARD TO OPERATE

IF VESSELS ARE MANNED (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Melbourne, May 8. Mr. W. Appleton, chairman of the Huddart, Parker Company, commenting on the request of the cooks for a conference, said that he had never heard of such confounded impertinence. While the union defied the Court’s authority, the owners would give no guarantee in writing other than that contained in their telegraphed reply that the conditions of the suspended award would continue to operate, if the cooks manned the vessels. The cooks could apply to the Court to have the suspended award restored. Pending a reply from the union, no calls for cooks would be made. Mr. Appleton said that he had already received a number of applications from volunteer cooks.

UNIONISTS AND DISPUTES COMMITTEE TO MEET IN MELBOURNE Sydney, May 8. The Federal secretary of the Marine Cooks’ Union, Mr. Tudhope, has gone to Brisbane, and several days must elapse before a reply to the shipowners’ letter Can be formulated. Mr. G. Moate, general president of the union, met the Disputes Committee .of the Trades Hall at Melbourne and arranged a meeting of representatives of all the maritime unions at Melbourne on Wednesday. The, Disputes Committee is anxious to prevent a serious upheaval.

SHIPOWNERS AWAITING MEN’S

REPLY

(Rec. May 8, 10.30 p.m.)

Melbourne, May 8.

A special meeting of the Commonwealth Shipowners’ Association considered the cooks’ dispute, and decided to withhold a decision as to what action will be taken by the owners until the men’s • reply to the ultimatum is received.

Representatives of the Australasian Council of Trades Unions and the Trades Hall Disputes Committee, after a meeting of the two bodies, interviewed the owners and urged that no immediate action be taken, pending a meeting of the maritime unions to-mor-row, at which they believed terms of settlement would be devised.

The chairman of the Shipowners’ Association stated afterwards that he had met the secretary of the Australasian Council of Trades Unions, but had not discussed the question of entering into negotiations for a settlement, as the shipowners were awaiting a reply to their ultimatum before taking action. ■ ‘