AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN
Mr Johnson Prevented From
Entering Meeting (Received January 21, 12.40 a.m.) Melbourne, January 20. The seamen have decided not to recognise Mr. Jacob Johnson as Federal Secretary of the union. 'When Mr. Johnson and Mr. Casey, Queensland secretary, attempted to enter the Trades Hall to-day, to attend a conference called by the Australian Council of Trades Unions, they encountered a large picket of seamen, who jeered and abused them and forcibly prevented their entering the building. The conference decided that neither Mr. J. Keenan, leader of the strike at Sydney, who was elected to take the place of Mr. Johnson by Sydney seamen, nor Mr. Johnson, be recognised as general secretary until the general president, Mr. Clarke, gave a ruling. It was also decided not to admit Mr Johnson to a further conference of unions. Mr. Clarke, who dill not attend the conference, said that Mr Keenan was not elected according to the rules.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 99, 21 January 1936, Page 6
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156AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 99, 21 January 1936, Page 6
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