STRIKE DEVELOPMENTS
I .j, 7“ -r s 24 SHIPS AND 1300 MEN IDLE ' • APPEAL TO MR. LYONS ' • .. .\■ B ■ —-—St ■ - [BY CABLE—PRES* ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] SYDNEY, August 16. ■ ’ Mr. J. A. LyQns Received a telegram from Sir George Ritchie, the acting?Premier ,of-_ South Australia., asking that the Federal. Government should intervene iii the shipping strike. t cause of the. likelihood that the motor body building' industry of South 1 Australia will beconfe paralysed if the strike is continued oven this week-end., Air. Lyons, after this, announced that the Federal Government would not, hesitate to exeercise its powers in order to ensure, the maintenance of sea transport if a settlement of the dispute is not reached shortly. Officials of the Seamen’s Union aro meeting in Sydney on Tuesday to con-, aider the dispute. There will also be' a mass meeting of the Sydney seamen on Monday. Four more vessels have become involved in the shipping strike. They - are the Carlisle, Momba, the Macedon and the Dumosa. . > OWNERS’ PEACE OFFER.
(Recd. August 17, S a.m.) SYDNEY, August 16.
More vessels are involved in the strike, including, besides those cabled earlier, the Montoro, Malaita, and Ngakqta. The latter is to arrive tonight from Newcastle, and was due to sail for New. Zealand to-morrow, but the crew has already given notice. It is regarded as certain that the only passenger vessels in commission after Monday next, apart from the Tasmanian steamers, will be the interstate liners Canberra and Westralia. The Steamship Owners’ Association issued a statement that providing the principle of free selection of crews is not disputed, and the ships are manned forthwith, the ship-, owneis do not desire to discriminate against the men dismissed on account of the present dispute.
COMPULSORY CONFERENCE
(Recd. Aug. 17, 11 a.m.). SYDNEY, August 17.
A compulsory conference of the parties to the shipping dispute has been . called by the Industrial Registrar for next Wednesday, in "Melbourne. It is competent for the conference to determine the basis for a settlement of the strike, and compel observance of its decisions.
At present, twenty-four ships are tied up, and about thirteen hundred men, whose wages amount to nearly £lOOO a day, are out of work.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1935, Page 7
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