LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
WALSH'S AMBITION TO OUST WILSON. (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLI ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 26th August. Mr. Cathery, the seamen's general secretary, said he welcomed the announcement that Tom Walsh proposed to come to England for the purpose of smashing Havelock Wilson's union. He would like to suggest that Walsh was making a virtue of necessity, like the coon'who said: "Don't shoot, colonel; I'll come down." He gave Walsh credit for taking himself seriously, but if he daied to tackle Havelock Wilson on his native heath he would get tha surprise of his life. He admitted that .Walsh might detach some malcontents, of whom a considerable percentage was inevitable in any organisation numbering seventy thousand, but he predicted a fiasco similar to the Southampton secession a few years ago. Mr. Cathery emphasised that the present wages agreement had been confirmed—first, by the executive council of the union, and second, by 72 branches-r----and also _ by the Ships Officers' Union, representing engineers, shipwrights, and boilermakers..
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 51, 28 August 1925, Page 7
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162LOOKING FOR TROUBLE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 51, 28 August 1925, Page 7
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