SHIPPING STRIKE

Evening Star, Issue 22228, 4 January 1936, Page 11

SHIPPING STRIKE

THE AUSTRALIAN DISPUTE POSITION IN MELBOURNE frags Association—By Telegraph —Copyright MELBOUR'NB, January 3. Only two 21 ships affected by the ©trike in Melbourne are now without prews. A mass meeting of seamen, decided ■Siat all seamen working alongside ships, such as watchmen, should leave their jobs. The fifth attack on a volunteer seaman since licensing began occurred today, when a man from a freighter was knocked down and kicked until he was rescued by”the police. His assailants ©scaped. “ There will be no variation in the Government’s policy. The licensing system has come to stay,” declared Mr JR. G. Menzies to-day. (HWRB TO DIBCBB6 ATTITUDE SYDNEY, January 3. ■£ meeting of the of all mining unions unanimously decided to call aggregate meetings of mine workers on all Australian fields on Wed- ; nesday to discuss a recommendation that a general stoppage be instituted. ’ in all pits and a demand be made that licenses be withdrawn from seamen before there is. a return to work. DELEGATES’ VISIT TD NEW ZEALAND REFUSED PERMISSION TO SAIL. • SYDNEY, January 4. ((Received January 4, a* 11.30 a.m.) ; The two delegates appointed by the Shipping Strike Committee to visit New Zealand to secure financial and moral support from the New Zealand union were refused permission to sail by the Monowai. ,It appears that the delegates declined to provide a' bond of £IOO each that they would not he a ; pbarge on the country during their ptay in New Zealand.