ONUS ON OWNERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 9

ONUS ON OWNERS

POLICY OF UNIONS THREAT TO EXTEND STRIKE MELBOUBNE, 25th May. Although merchants and exporters are anxious about their idle cargoes and heavy losses, they are not making any movo at present to apply to the Federal Government for suspension of tho Navigation Act to relievo the position, as all sections desire a settlement of the cooks' dispute- without r,csorting to extreme measures. Mr. Tudehope, secretary of • the Cooks' Union, conferred with the (Waterside AVorkers' Federation and a policy for the conduct of the dispute was adopted. It includes putting the onus on the owners of refusing a conference with the cooks and watersid'ers, which organisations now claim to be managing the dispute. If, as expected, the shipowners refuso to grant a conference, the'watersiders and cooks will leavo it to the owners / directly extend the dispute) and, if more, vessels are tied up or tho dispute is not settled within the next few clays the watersiders will throw in'their lot with tho cooks, thus directly extending tho strike throughout Australia, and putting tho onus on the other maritime unions of joining in the strike. Unless' the- dispute is settled 'in the meantime, all iute'r-Stato passenger steamers, with tho exception of those running between Melbourne and Tasmania, will bo rendered idle" next week. ' -(Received 26th May, 11 a.m.) PERTH,' This Day. " The prolonged strike in the job printing industry, involving 300 men, has ended, the men agreeing to return on the same wages and conditions as obtained at the beginning of the dispute in February,