BRITISH SAILORS.
FORM NEW ORGANISATION
NEW DEVELOPMENT. IN SHIPPING DISPUTE. GY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Aug. 27, 12.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. 27. A most important decision was arrived at at a mass meeting of British seamen. It was that a new organisation be formed, and a president, secretary and an executive were appointed to control its affairs. PROTECTION FOR- LOYALIST SEAMEN. REPLIES FROM STATES. (Received Aug. 27, 12.15 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Aug. 27. The Prime Minister (Mr Bruce) has announced that he has received replies to the request for protection of British sailors desiring to work from all the States except New South Wales and West Australia. The Victorian reply says: “The Government is fully seized of the seriousness of the position, and will be quite prepared to co-operate with the Commonwealth Government in endeavouring to cope with it in every possible wav.” The Queensland Government replied : “Your wire respecting the seamen’s strike received.” South Australia says: “There is no intimidation of British seamen in South Australia. The Government will take all necessary steps to prevent breaches of the peace.” Tasmania says: “Should the trouble unfortunately spread to this State, the Government will take any action necessary or desirable as the circumstances arise.”
The Victorian branch of the Waterside Workers’ Federation has assured the shipowners that no ships will he held up at Melbourne by its members. It is reported that the Federal Executive is issuing instructions to this effect, also to the Adelaide and Fremantle branches.
DISTURBANCE AT STEPNEY. ATTACK ON UNION OFFICE. (Received Aug. 27, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 26. Officials at the headquarters of the! Seamen’s and Firemen’s Union declared to-day that no ships were held.upj or prevented from sailing by a Communist plot. They added that in consequence of what had occurred at South African ports the union had' sent a lengthy cable message to Mr Hertzog (Prime Minister) in terms similar to the cable message to Mr Brace, asking for 'protection for .the crews., • i A disturbance occurred this morning outside the Stepney office of the Seamen’s Union, whose officials had been threatened by Communists. While agitators were addressing the crowd outside an attempt was made to attack the building. Numbers of police arrived and guarded the premises. Revolver shots were fired from the building during the uproar, and the secretary was arrested.—Reuter. PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT. POWER BEHIND TOM WALSH. (Received Aug. 27, 1.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. 27. . In the Assembly, in reviewing the British seamen’s strike, Miss Preston Stanley, in her maiden speech, the first by S a woman in any Australian Parliament, declai’ed that Mrs Walsh, formerly Miss Adel a Pankhurst, wife of Tom Walsh, president of the Seamen's Union, was the power behind her strifestirring husband. Miss Stanley said: “It is this same dernagogistic philosophress who has laid it down that the worker who is thrifty betrays his wife and children.” Pausing a moment, she ejaculated: “What bedlamic theories.”
TOM WALSH PREFERRED. BY MEN AT LYTTELTON. BITTER AGAINST HAVELOOK WILSON. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 27. “What we want is Tom Walsh to go Home and reorganise our union. He is a. man able to do that, and we think he would receive the wholehearted support of the seamen in the United Kingdom,” declared the spokesman for a group of the crew of the steamer Hororata this morning. The men came out on strike yesterday, following on advice from Australia. He added that in the meantime they were awaiting developments. The men were very bitter in their attitude towards the president of their union, Mr. Havelock Wilson, and their one aim, they stated, was to remove him from power.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 August 1925, Page 9
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