NOT ACCEPTABLE

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 July 1925, Page 5

NOT ACCEPTABLE

OWNERS’ PROPOSALS. MODIFICATION REQUIRED. WHAT SEAMEN SAY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT Received July 23, 10.45 a.m. SYDNEY, July 23. The Burns Philp Island steamer Makambo has joined the idle fleet, seamen refusing to man the vessel. The Union Company’s Kokiri at Sydney and. the Ngatoro at Hobart are also held up. The consensus of opinion among seamen seems to be that the owners’ proposals will have to be modified before they will be approved by the rank and file of the union. The proposals that are meeting with most opposition are those dealing with the abolition of stopwork meetings, holiday pay, and the return to home ports of discharged seamen. SEAMEN CONSIDERING OWNERS’ TERMS. MELBOURNE, July 22. The management committee of the Seamen’s Union is still considering the owners’ terms, and will probably submit as a counter proposal an amended log of wages and conditions. The power and light producing unions held a Conference with the transport group, and considered the immediate policy of the industrial movement generally. The conference was adjourned until Monday, with a view to getting uniform action throughout the Commonwealth. This adjournment is taken as an indication that the seamen will not accept the owners’ terms.