SEAMEN'S DECISION

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 38, 13 August 1935, Page 9

SEAMEN'S DECISION

THREAT TO EXTEND TROUBLE

SEVERAL SHIPS lIELB UP

United I'ress Association—By Electric Tele-

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SYDNEY, August 12.

The seamen today reaffirmed their decision to maintain the "black" bail on the Huddart, Parker ships, until the Zealandia trouble-is adjusted, and to extend the trouble if the. men who offered first as "pick-ups" are. not accepted because of their unsatisfactory discharges.

Ships now affected at Sydney are the Zealandia, the Wanganella, the Talune, and the Mildura. The Wanganelia is consequently not sailing tonight. Mr. G. W. Forbes, New' Zealand Prime Minister, and the Maori footballers are unable to sail- until Thursday, when the Marama is due to leave for Wellington.

Today's .meeting of seamen gave a poor hearing to the moderates, but another meeting will be held tomorrow, when the result of meetings at ■ Melbourne and Newcastle will be discussed. More seamen should then be in port, and the moderates will make a determined effort •to capture the meeting and defeat plans for the extension of. the hold-up.

Denning at Melbourne the union's attitude to the hold-up, Mr. W. Clarke, Federal- president of the Seamen's Union, declared that the seamen did not regard the issue as a strike. "The ships are idle as a result of the boycott by owners following victimisation of the- men dismissed from the Murada," he said. ■ .