SEAMEN’S STRIKE
AUSTRALIAN DEVELOPMENTS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, October- 23. The chief item of strike interest to-day was the arrival by train from Melbourne of fifteen of the sixteen niembei-s of the crew of the steamer Nestor who struck there. They were met at Sydney by squad of special police and escorted aboard the Negtqr. Wharf labourers ar e now engaged in discharging the Nestor’s cargo. It is now announced that the Diogenes, which wag yesterday reported as not calling at Melbourne, will call there. It is unofficially announced that th© Overseas Shipping Representatives’ Association evolved a scheme forovercoming the Seamen’s Union ukase for preventing the coaling of vessels. INTIMIDATION ALLEGED. CAPE TOWN, October 23. The steamer Seattle arrived at Durban from Buribury fifteen men short, owing to having to sail suddenly) * due to fear of threats from strikers. Several members of the crew state that they will not return to Australia, as they fear personal violence.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 October 1925, Page 5
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