STRIKE DECLARED OFF

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 114, 7 February 1935, Page 9

STRIKE DECLARED OFF

Vessel to Resume Service (Received September C, 9.50 p.m.) Sydney, February 0. The Seamen’s Union at Sydney today unanimously decided to end the strike on the Howard Smith interstate liner Canberra and the company will now proceed with a free selection of a crew.

Restoration of the service will probably take place next Tuesday.

A message dated January 30 stated that the Howard Smith steamer Canberra, with 370 passengers aboard for Queensland ports, was prevented from sailing. One fireman was the cause of the trouble, the Seamen’s Union demanding that lie should be engaged by the company to fill a vacancy among the crew. The vessel was due to sail at 8 p.m., but later at night the company was compelled to ndvjsc passengers that the ship would not leave that night. The trouble arose, originally in Brisbane a few weeks ago, when the company declined to engage a certain man. The Canberra on that occasion was delayed 19 hours. Apparently, knowing that the vacancy would have to be filled in Sydney, the man who was refused employment in Brisbane travelled to Sydney. The Seamen’s Union decided that he should be the only man offered for the vacancy. The company’s officials refused to engage the man. Howard Smith. Ltd., having notified the Seamen’s Union that it intended to exercise its legal right of free selection of its mon, the union, nt a mass meeting, decided not to work the Canberra, and the vessel was laid up.