Indemnity Allegedly Paid For Lifting Black Ban On Ship
SYDNEY, Aug. 14.
A claim that the new owners of the freighter Ngatoro paid the Maritime Transport Union’s council £ISOO as an indemnity to lift the black ban which held up the vessel for 87 days is made by the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Madrigal and Company, of the Philippines, bought the ship off the Union Company and sent a Filipino crew to sail her to Manila. _ When the maritime unions ruled that Australian seamen must take the ship to hor new home port, the decision involved Madrigal and company in a loss estimated at £12,000 The chairman of the council, Captain W G Lawrence, refuses to comment on the lifting of the ban beyond saying: “The unions have decided that they no longer want to man the ship. The Ngatoro will leave Sydney today to coal at Newcastle.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23025, 16 August 1949, Page 5
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