FURTHER DELAY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 137, 6 December 1935, Page 9

FURTHER DELAY

ACTION TO END STRIKE

CHANCE FOR SEAMEN

CONSTITUTIONAL' REDRESS

ALL INTERSTATE SHIPS IDLE

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(Received December 6, 10.13 a.m.)l.SYDNEY, This Day. The Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, announced that the Federal Government has postponed until after the weekend the action it had intended to take to halt the strike of seamen. This has been done in order to give the Australian Council of Trades Unions an opportunity of inducing the seamen to return to work and seek redress for their grievances by constitutional means.

There were no major developments in the shipping strike at Sydney yesterday. All interstate vessels are idle, and everybody is awaiting the out-- ,- come of today's meeting of the sea- "" men. The opinion is freely expressed that the men will refuse to work under the new award.

The disputes committee of the Australian Council of Trades Unions at it* meeting at - Melbourne yesterday recommended the seamen to return to work pending an application for a variation of the award. Officials of the Seamen's Union in Sydney and Melbourne have telegraphed all branches advising the men to return to work and emphasising the futility of defying the Government's ultimatum. The Orient liner Oronsay sailed for London yesterday with 300 interstate passengers.

The Niagara is not sailing before Saturday owing to the shortage of -wharf labour.

A Melbourne message states that the feeling along the waterfront is decidedly in favour of an early resumption of work.