AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 July 1925, Page 5

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(Aualraliw and N.Z. Cable Association. ' ■■■»■■« ** - •’ t ' COMPULSORY UNIONISM. SYDNEY, July 11. /.('he Minister of Agriculture (Air l)iiiin),';lia,s issu&d _ instructions that the employees. at the various institutions and branches of his Department must be members of unions , appropriate to their callings. VOLUMNTA COMPENSATION. , < SYDNEY, July 11. It is authoritatively stated in’ Labour . circles that the Federated Seamen’s; Union had received £5OO, as compensation-- for losses sustained by the 1 original Crew of the Cominonwealth chartered steamer ’Volumnia The source, of the payment is unknown. It was only after the compensation claim was met that the Union allowed its members to man Commonwealth vessels. VESSELS HELD UP. . . . -BRISBANE, July 11. Owing tb the action of certain .members '-of the crews of the Mackarra and Wyandra, in leaving the ships at Brisbane, it was decided by the owners to lay both vessels up. • 'HOBART, July 11. The Union Company’s steamer Karamu is help up in Hobart, owing -to the refusal of the firemen, _ who were required to fill two vacancies in the. vessel’s’ complement, to accept berths, without a month’s wages, in advar.de, and a guarantee of a passage home. SHIPPING DEVELOPMENTS SYDNEY, July 10. The seamen and the owners concerned in the shipping dispute at Sydney, are not moving but are awaiting the final outcome of the Unions’ Delegation’s visit yto Melbourne. > The conference of /the Unions’ delegation and ' the Commonwealth Shipowners’ Association has adjourned to a date to be fixed, and the Union officials haye returned to ’Sydney. The negotiations, however, have not been broken off. Mort’s Dock, Sydney, has re-opened all the dismissed employees having been re-engaged. The Moeraki was due to sail at ten this morning, but was delayed through the absence of six firemen, but later the men were taken to the vessel in the stream, and she sailed at 11-30.