AUSTRALIAN EXTREMISTS

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1889, 27 April 1928, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN EXTREMISTS

TOWN EDITION

. RUIN SHIPPING INDUSTRY LOSS ON THE UEDIAROA (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). (Received April 27, 2 p.m.) Melbourne, ’April 27. The Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association in a. statement declares that the l limnroa was built to carry 423 passengers. Alterations, however, under the- Commonwealth Navigation Act had reduced her passenger on pa oi tv to 379 while crows had been increased from 120 to 130. Two more men to the galley staff. n«3 was demanded by ihe Cook's 1 nion. would mean -C2OOO per annum extra in addition to overtime an accommodation. Upwards of £60.000 had been lost in earnings since the lluddart-Park-er’s fleet had been rendered idle. The statement concludes: Ship, owners are asking what redress they have got? Unless they and their great body of employees can find some common sense way of determining minor troubles it is absolutely certain tbe extremists in the Unions will ruin the shipping industry.