BETTER NEWS.
SETTLEMENT LIKELY
IN SHIPPING STRIKE
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, July 27. Advices from Melbourne state that the shipping conference has adjourned till Tuesday, and there is now every indication that a settlement will be reached. The seamen rejected the owners’ terms, stating that acceptance would involve the surrender of vital principles. The men’s representatives then submitted counter-proposals, which it is expected may form the basis of a settlement. The Seamen’s Union framed a new log of wagesi and conditions, in which increases are demanded, but the log is not to be served pending mass meetings of the Seamen’s Union on Tuesday, when the whole situation will be reviewed.
The coastal trade is practically normal, ships working with free labour, but there are now 58 inter-State and Island steamers tied up at Sydney. At Brisbane a mass meeting of the Seamen’s Union unanimously rejected the owners’ proposals. The meeting appointed a committee to draw up coun-ter-proposals.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 July 1925, Page 5
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