SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1925, Page 7

SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT

PARTIES MEETING TO-DAY

COMPROMISE ON MAIN ISSUE.

(UNITED PRESS ASEOCIATION.r-OOPIRMIT.) (Received Bfch January, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Prospects for the settlement of the picking-up dispute with the seamen are brighter. The coastal shipowners meet the union to-day to decide "mutually upon picking-up places in the terms of the award. \ The meeting of the transport group has decided to accept a compromise upon the picking-up place dispute, and has instructed the Seamen's Union to accept offers at the conference. It is not known whether the union will comply, as in the past it has accepted instructions only when they were agreeable.. The meeting was very stormy, delegates from the Watersiders' Federation bitterly attacking the Seamen's Union for its ruthlees attitude, which, they stated/ seriously; endangered the agreement completed by the federation at the Melbourne Conference. This led to heated interchanges UARGS BAY TO RESCUE The Commonwealth liner Largs Bay is due to sail'for Hobart on Saturday, being rushed by those held up owing to the Zealandia. not sailing. As the Largs Bay is then proceeding to Melbourne, ehe will be able to relieve the acute position caused in Hobart by the suspension of interstate services. The Bay liners' are also carrying meat and butter to West Australia, where a shortage has arisen. Should the Largs Bay be held up, the position will be serious, for the food shortage in th» West will become acute.