SEAMEN SENTENCED FOR DISOBEYING ORDER OF MASTER
MELBOURNE, Tills Day (Rec. 2 p m ) —Eight seamen from the freighter Haligonian Duke were sentenced to a week’s gaol for having on July 20 disobeyed an order by the master of the ship to return to duty. The seamen struck for Canadian rates of though the ship was under British charter. , xi , . The court was told that the ship changed her nationality to Canadian 20 minutes before leaving Melbourne on Sunday, and went to.sea paying the rest of the crew Canadian rates from the tirpe they returned to duty. The Haligonian Duke lay five months in Melbourne with a cargo of Indian coal, which the Seamen’s Union declared “black,” because of the Canadian shipping dispute. She was unloaded by the Royal Australian Navy last week.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1949, Page 5
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