NEARING THE END.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3938, 21 February 1920, Page 2

NEARING THE END.

MARINE ENGINEERS' STRIKE

v ßy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

(Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.)

■Melbourne, Feb. 20. The engineers, of the Federal fleet desire to return under the terms offered, and are endeavouring to obtain the executive's permission to resume. The marine Engineers' losses to date approxicate £300,000.

Tin- Victorian engineers regard the proposals to buy the Island fleet as frivolous. ' The. executive has neither the money nor the administration to run a line. PROPER ACCOMMODATION WANTED. Sydney, Feb. 20. A mass meeting or .seamen has decided to make representation to the Director of Education that the nesv Navigation Act does not ensure proper accommodation, and they intend to insist- on an amendment of tiie Act. U N lON ISA! THREATEN ED. Sydney, Feb. 20. Tho Labour Council has issued a inaiiilesto, condemning the action ot the Federal Government in closing dosvn the funds of the marine engineers and preventing anyone rendering them assistance, as one of the greatest attacks ever made on unionism in Australia, and calling all unionists to stand behind the engineers. The manifesto adds: Any shirking of the issue svill nosy encourage our foes to strike again and again until unionism is vanquished beneath their feet.