STRIKE OVER ?

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10141, 29 October 1925, Page 5

STRIKE OVER ?

-A. OF L. ADVISE SEAMEN TO RETURN TO WORK. AUCKLAND SEAMEN ACCEDE. WELLINGTON, Oct. 28. t On Friday last the overseas sea--. m6n agreed to hand over their dispute to the Alliance of Labor. Th e Alliance immediately communicated with the overseas shipping companies and requested that a conference be held with a view to considering ways and means by which the dispute could be adjusted and the trouble terminated. A fit-reply was received from the overseas shipping- companies’ representatives stating that they had already decided the terms of settlement at the conference convened by the Prime Minister and that no good purpose would be served by a conference with the Alliance of Labor. The question was oonsidere: by a meeting of the national council of the Alliance of Labor yesterday morning and it was decided that, in view of the present position of the dispute, they would advise the overseas seamen to returi to their ships. This was placed be- ■ fore a meeting of seamen yesterday afternoon and the recommendations of the Alliance of Labor are being telegraphed to the othe! ports of the Dominion and, in th meantime, negotiations are in progress in regard to the returning of the men to their ships.—P.A DEPORTATION BOARD. JACOB JOHNSON’S CASE. (Received Oct. 29, 1.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 28. The Deportation Board sat to hear the case of Jacob Johnson. Air. Watt appealed for an adjournment till the, finding in the Walsh case is known. The chairman, refusing, said they had finished with Walsh and could not disclose that finding. There was no intention of preventing Walsh testing the validity of the proceedings of the Court. Mr. Watt then withdrew. Mr. Meagher, counsel for Johnson, appealed for an adjournment till the Federal Elections were over. The Court refused, but granted an adjournment till Monday. SYDNEY, Oct. 28. The Zealandia’s crew have been paid off. NEWCASTLE. Oct. 28. Arrived, Holm wood, from New Zealand; sailed, Koremiko, for New Zealand:—U..A.

TROUBLE OVER INJURED SEAMEN. STRIKERS .ATTEMPT TO RUSH VESSEL. FREMANTLE, Oct. 28. A couple of hundred strikers, headed by the secretary of the Seamen's Union, took an ambulance to the steamer Karoola for the purpose of removing from the vessel to the hospital a member of the crew injured in connection with the strike trouble. The police intervened and persuaded the men to abide by the decision of the three doctors called -to examine the injured man. The doctors- reported that he was receiving treatment equal to what would be got in a hospital. The strikers, ignoring their promise to refrain from rushing the ship, attempted to do so when the gangway was lowered for the doctors. The police and ship’s officers ejected them. The strikers’ efforts to induce the crew of the Enton to min them proved futile.

MAHIA TO BE COALED BY UNIONISTS. MEAT PART OF BRITISH CONTRACT. BRISBANE, Oct. 28. Following on interviews with the Union - leaders by Mr. Theodore at Gladstone and the Premier at Brisbane, it is anticipated that the coaling of the Mahia will be done by unionists and the threatened serious trouble between them and the farmers overcome. Mr. Brute wired the Premier stating that Sir Joseph Cook had cabled representatives of the War Office and the contractors had seen him and the Queensland Agent-Gei.eral and complained that some of the holdup meat was part of a British Government contract.. Sir J. Cook added that such a'iv action would prejudice the contract now pending and Argentine might secure it if something were not done to end the holdup. Mr. Bruce added that the Government regarded the matter as of the utmost importance- to Australia, He asked the Premier to do all possible to get the meat dispatched. Air. McCormack; in* reply, said he would be glad if Mr. Bruce- would suggest what the Government could do any more than tlie Commonwealth authorities to end tlie trouble created by the strike of tlie British seamen. MELBOURNE. Oct. 28. The Manuka’s departure lias been temporarily delayed, five firemen absenting themselves under persuasion of their mates. They returned’, enabling the vessel to sail at three this afternoon.—U.P.A.

STEAMER ZEALANDIA HELD UP. MELBOURNE CUP VISITORS' DISAPPOINTED, (Received Oct. 2S, 9:36. p.m,) SYDNEY, Oct. 28. The Huddart, Parker Co. decided to t e up the steamer Zcalandia on the eve *of leaving for (Melbourne with a heavy passenger.-list, en route for the Cup. Th's return- is* tile-.out-come of the steamship owners’ conference, and - the reply to. tlie’ sea—men's job control methods in tying up the Ulimaroa nud. otiior vgss©ls. It was considered that, owing to- the congestion of shipping at Fremantle it wou'd not be advisable to send'the Zea’andia on the western tro. Many intending Cup visitors,, r,re sorely-dis-appointed.—U.P.A-.: