AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN
BIG UPHEAVAL EXPECTED LETTER TO OWNERS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. ' SYDNEY, Aiw-il 14. (Received April 14, at 11 a.m.) The Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association has received a letter signed by Jacob Johnson, general secretary of the Seamen’s Union, which they accept as a prelude to a big upheaval on the whole of the waterfront in Australia. The letter accuses the owners of being hypocritical in attitude towards continuing the conference which met last October to discuss the new log presented by the seamen. It adds that the whole matter will be placed before members of the union, who will then be able to determine the policy necessary to bring about improved working conditions, which are long overdue. The owners slated that they agreed to a resumption of the conference, the only condition bcieng that peace should be maintained and job control tactics eliminated.
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Evening Star, Issue 19841, 14 April 1928, Page 11
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145AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN Evening Star, Issue 19841, 14 April 1928, Page 11
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