SHIPPING- TROUBLE—END FORESEEN.

Evening Star, Issue 18136, 28 November 1922, Page 10

SHIPPING- TROUBLE—END FORESEEN.

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Tlio situation in the shipping trouble shows indications early settlement. No announcement lias yet .been made by blie National Executive of the Seamen’s Union, but it is believed that members realise that it is fruitless perpetuating the present position, because the ship owners aie having iio difficulty in getting thou vessels manned by free •labor, and it seems' liiipcicss to expect support from the deck otiicers or from any other outside smm;o It appears that tne executive of «io muon considers Mm* me liremeu and seamen nave not reused to accept work under tne cunu award; because when Lite nier. offered then' services a. week ago the snip owners declined to make anv engagements until the union first guiuauiccd that the provisions of the award wmJd be accepted and observed. Inc developments to-day signify that. Ilia executive is anxious to bring about a settlement, and that a conference with Um ship owners to discuss tlio existing situation would bo welcomed. „ , , . . , , ~ Mr Bishop, secretary of the Ship Owners federation, stated to-day that a settlement must be ©fleeted with tlio union before the unionists would be allowed to go~Uck to the ships. The secretary of the Merchant Service Guild (Captain Maclndoo) stated this morning that there vm no chance of the deck officers going out. Ho had been surprised to sea the Christchurch telegram to that effect.— Wellington telegram,