NEW ZEALAND’S STRIKE

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 320, 22 July 1925, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND’S STRIKE

.all work suspended .VI DUNEDIN (Per Press association.) Dunedin, July 21. The shipping- deadlock continues, nil work at Dunedin being, suspended with no settlement yet in sight. XT.R.S. CO.’S ULTIMATUM. TROUBLE OVER- THE WALPORT. NON-UNION I SI’S TO SAIL SHIP. Groyinouth, July -H. -The dispute over manfr.-:»g the stokehold of the 1 mon ( ompatiy s steamer Waipori wnich has been existing since July 2 reached a deadlock to-day when the company, replying to two alternative proposals lor a settlement advanced by the unionists, issued an ultimatum 1° the effect that unless the vessel is taken to sea on to-night’s tide by the original manning the company propose taking steps to buvn the ship. The firemen, five of whom are in prison for refusing to sail, demanded originally the provision of two trimmers. The assistant union score, tnrv. Air Howell, of Wellington, later submitted alternative proposals. either to put two of the ship’s greasers trimming with the addition of a third trimmer or to increase the manning by one trimmer, to hi exclusively worked hv day trimming sufficient for the night watches. All the seamen unionists on the Waipori regard the company ns throwing down the gauntlet and consequently have resolved that il non-unionists arc brought to man Lhe vessel they will refuse duty, taking the consequences. Aloreover, the firemen’s original demand for two trimmers will now he reinstated. Tt is expected ,the company will bring some of its permanent bands overland to man the Waipori in Pm course of a. couple of days.