AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 19002, 25 July 1925, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING

DEADLOCK CONTINUES MEN WANT ANOTHER CONFERENCE. . Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. MELBOURNE, July 24. It is unofficially stated that the seamen, although they have not yet replied to the owners’ proposals, will reject them, with a request that a further conference should be held. The seamen are submitting a new log to the owners, claiming increased wages, in many cases amounting to £3 A month. TRANSPORT GROUP OFFERS SERVICES. ANOTHER CONFERENCE PROt BABLE. • "SYDNEY, July 25. (Received July 25, at 9.45 a.m.) A meeting of the transport group resolved, in order that the community should suffer no inconvenience as the result of the present dislocation of the shipping industry, that the group offers its 00-operation to the Prune Minister in maintaining the interstate serment should commission all the idle vessels of the Commonwealth Line and other idle vessels in the various ports of the Commonwealth, which nhe group would undertake to work in accordance with the terms of the agreement between tbe Commonwealth Shipping Board and the group. ■. Mr T. falsli sbtes ■ thta he intends to communicate with the ship owners til Tuesday and to notify them what progress the seamen are making in considering the terms of settlement laid down, and the probable date that the union desires the conference again to be called together.