DIFFICULTIES DISSOLVING

Evening Star, Issue 18144, 7 December 1922, Page 6

DIFFICULTIES DISSOLVING

STRIKE SITUATION IN AUSTRALIA. OWNERS WILL APPLY TO DEREGISTER UNION. Vrest Association—By Teiegrsph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, December 6. (Received December 6, at 10.20 p.m.) The 'back of the seamen's strike has been broken. The Union Company secured full volunteer crews far the Moerald and Waikawa. It is stated that if trouble is experienced with tho stewards their places will be filled by volunteers. The company intends to continue, enrolling men, and efforts will be made to despatch other vessels. Volunteers are enrolling at Newoasllo to man the Koromtko and the Kauri. It is officially announced that the steamship ownera intend making early application to the Federal Arbitration Court for tho deregistration of the Seamen's Union. HEAVY BOOKINGS FOR MOERAKI. STEWARDS, WHARFMEN, AND DRAYMEN NEUTRAL. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY-, December 7. (Received December 7, at 10.50 a.m.) There were heavy bookings of passengers for the Moeraki, despite alarming circulars issued by the Communists urging the people not to trust their lives to volunteer labor. The vessel is set down to sail on Friday afternoon. The passengers will bo conveyed down harbor to the steamer in ferries. The stewards, wharf laborers, and trolley and dray men decided to maintain neutrality. LOCAL POSITION. The position remains unchanged at the port of Dunedin. There steamers manned with non-union crews are at the wharves, and everything k working smoothly. Three of ti'bo leading memlbers of the Dunedin branch of the Federated Seamen's Union are at present in Wellington attending a meeting of ithe Dominion Executive. The waterside workers are carrying out loading and discharging operations with their -usual vigor, and the shipping companies are well satisfied with tho result of their daily labor.