COOKS’ DISPUTE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 188, 11 May 1928, Page 9

COOKS’ DISPUTE

SHIPOWNERS COMPLETE PLANS

ALL UNIONS LIKELY TO BE

INVOLVED

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

(Rec. May 10, 9.30 p.m.)

Melbourne, May 10.

A meeting of members of the Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association completed plans for dealing with the cooks’ dispute. The closest secrecy is being observed. No statement has been issued. It is generally believed that the prospects of a settlement of the dispute are remote, and an extension of the trouble is inevitable. The secretary of the Emergency Executive of the Australasian Trades Unions Council stated that it had been decided to summon an inter-State conference for Monday next. AU unions are likely to be directly involved in the dispute.

NEW UNION TO BE FORMED

OF COOKS AND SEAMEN > (Rec. May 10, 9.30 p.m.)

Sydney, May 10.

Following upon' the decision of the shipowners to give the cooks till Monday to man the idle ships, otherwise they will discontinue employing members of the union and insist on the right of free selection of any man with good discharges, it is stated that a new union will be formed, embracing members of the Cooks’ Union and Seamen’s Union who are dissatisfied with the present conduct of their affairs by militant officials.

EFFECT OF DISPUTE ON MAIL SERVICES

Sydney, May 10.

The dislocation of shipping between Australia and New Zealand due to the cooks’ strike was responsible' for an incident unique in the history of Grafton, on the North Coast. " Yesterday eighteen bags of mails from New Zealand for the Australian States were landed there, the mails being dispatched from New Zealand to Australia by any available vessel. The Poolta, which makes periodical trips, brought this consignment, dated Auckland May 2. It will be distributed to-day.