A RIFT IN THE LUTE.
SECRETIVE SEAMEN. BREAKING A “UNITED FRONT.” BY CABLE—PRESS ASfsOGtATION-—(COPYRIGHT Received Dec. 29, 1.55 p.m. < SYDNEY, Dec. 29. ■ Unless the Government intervenes immediately to remove the shipping deadlock drastic action is proposed within union circles to bring she Seamen s Union to a. reasonable franle of mind As a first step it is proposed to ask the Seamen’s Uiiion to, change its delegates on the Transport Federation and to drop the present officers. It is stated that they are fractious, intolerant, and unreasonable. On account of their secretiveness, other units of the transport group are almost' in ignorance of the seamen’s plans. . If the Labour Council refuses to intervene, it is stated that a mass meeting of members of other unions will be held to devise ways and means of forcing the deni and . A direct result of the strike position is the breaking of t-he united front which the officials are calling upon unions to present. EMBARGO LIFTED. 1 Received Dec. 29, 2.10 p.m . PERTH. Dec. 29. A meeting of the Watersiders’ Federation resolved to lift the embargo on th e Clan Mu n roe, subject to certain conditions which, if not kept, will result in the reinrposition of the embargo..
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 December 1924, Page 7
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206A RIFT IN THE LUTE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 December 1924, Page 7
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