A STRIKE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 December 1924, Page 5

A STRIKE

“WE MUST HAVE ONE.” WEST AUSTRALIA’S WAY. MINISTER’S DISCLOSURE. BY CARLE—TRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, Received 1 Dec. 2, 11.40 p.m,' . ■v j . / PEiii'Jti, Dec.-2. . Replying to. a statement by tne secretary or tne Wesctauan branch of tne Australian Seamen's Onion, the' Minister tor Public \v orks (.Alr McCailum) said that from his first interview with the president of the Seamen’s Onion (iom VVaishj, it was . plain , that . no matter what ne, (the Minister) " did, a strike vv-a-s certain. Nv&isir was lie I*o about three sam the Minister, and one of Walsh's public utterances pointed to the Act- that fie was determined to have a strike and hold up the public services, of the State. Au mV hrst interview with him,” 'Mr McCaiium said “he suggested he should arrauge to hold up Port Fremantle in order that 1 might grant the.members of the Seamen’s Union some .special consideration. He asked that I should agree to this proposal. I told him I viewed it as being a decidedly wrong, untair ipid unwarrantable suggestion, and that I could not be a party to it.’ OVERTURES BY STEWARDS. . SYDNEY, Dec. 1. ihe marine stewards have apparently modified their attitude totvarde the Moreton Bay. A meeting of the union passed a resolution that the union endeavour to, effect- a settlement of the dispute by getting the line to reinstate tj ie forty-seven stewards dismissed from Moreton Bay on other vessels of the Commonwealth Line. Hitherto- the union demanded that the dismissed forty-seven he reinstated on the Moreton Bay. :