VOYAGE ABANDONED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 100, 27 April 1912, Page 5

VOYAGE ABANDONED

TROUBLE ON THE OLYMPIC. TANTAMOUNT TO MUTINY. COMPANY APPEALS FOR GOVERNMENT SUPPORT. By Telejraph.— Presi AMoi'ltUlon.-Copyrieb*, (Received April 27, 8.5 a.rii.) LONDON, 261k April. 'The officials of Iho Seamen's, Union witnessed trials of the Olympic's boat* and agreed that all were seaworthy except one collapsible. The White Star Company immediately offered to replace it. The company is now recruiting firemen in the provinces. Fifty of the Olympic's Bailors have been arrested for deserting and refusing to sail with non-union firemen. The Olympic's voyage has been aham doned. The remnant of the firemen hitherto loyal also declined to sail. The deserters jumped into the tug which brought the non-union firemen, to th« steamer, whereupon the Olympic signalled the cruiser Cochrane, and Captain Goodenough proceeded in a pinnae© and remonstrated with the deserters in the tug, declaring that their action was tantamount to munity. The deserters, however, were obdurate. Meanwhile, the pa-ssengers' steamer was sent lo take off the ealooii passengers." The White Star Company has appealed to the Postmaster-General to support effort* lo secure the punishment, of the guilty men, as unless firmness i» shown it will bo unable to restore discipline and maintain the sailings. [As the Olympic was on the point of sailing from Southampton to New York on AVednesday, a number of firemen hurled their kits on the quay, and scoVes surged to the gangway demanding wooden life-boats instead of collapsible boats. The men alleged that some of the collapsible boats were uuseaworthy. The officers offered to demonstrate the seaworthiness of the collapsibles, bub 295 men left the *hip. Non-union firemen were engaged, but the sailors inti. mated that they would not sail with* them.]