SHIPPING STRIKE

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 December 1935, Page 7

SHIPPING STRIKE

APPEAL TO UNIONS. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] • i SYDNEY, December 13. Follo\ving a conference with officials of tire Sydney Labour Council, a delegation from the seamen and the two visiting representatives of the Australian Council of Trades Unions today recommended that all of the affiliated unions should provide financial assistance for . the seamen strikei s. Further meetings of the executives of those unions likely to be affected by the strike will be held at Sydney and Melbourne on Monday. In the meantime, no overtures for a settlement of the strike are likely to be made. Pickets are patrolling the wharves and shipping offices. The delegates of the Australian Railways Union are assembling on Monday to discuss the strike, and to formulate a policy in the event of its extension. Although the ship owners report \a slackening in the number of qualified men offering for employment, a sufficient number of men has been engaged for at least twelve freighters at I three Australian ports. Their sailing is fixed for the week-end. The Whiruna is due to sail to-morrow for San Francisco. The Seamen’s Union applied in the High Court to-day for an injunction against the Commonwealth Government, claiming that the Transport Workers’ Act and Regulations were ultra vires of the constitution. Mr. Justice Evatt before whom the matter was mentioned, fixed the hearing of the application for Monday before the Full High Court.