NO DELAY

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 September 1925, Page 5

NO DELAY

SHIPS SAIL AS USUAL

MEN SIGNING ON. STRIKE POSITION AT HOME. BY CABLE—PRESS AHSOCXAriON—COPYRIGHT, Received Sent. 3. 11.20 a.m. '.ONDON, Sept. 2. A representative of the New Zealand Shipping Company states that no vessel is detained in Great Britain, and all have sailed on clue date. He estimates that 50,000 men have signed on at reduced pay since the Ist of August. The Berrima has been moved from Woolwich to Tilbury, and it is confidently expected it will sail to-morrow as scheduled. The Seamen’s Union asserts that no shin to-day failed to keep its timetable. Mr -Maynard, secretary of the lransnort Workers’ Union, has cabled to Mr Monte, reasserting that the stewards and cooks were signing on as usual. The strike was not organised by any responsible trade union.—A. ancl N Assn.

NO CH ANGE AT HOME

ANOTHER STATEMENT ON THE

DISPUTE.

k LONDON, Sept. I. The sitnko situation at Heme pelt* is sitatimiary. Tiie MeimoviMe obtained a full crew at Hull despite \the efforts of pickets. Ships '.signed on previously sailed aecordiidig itq '.schedule. '1 !lvt> crew of the liner Bristol City, which is due to sad to-morrow, refused to sign on. Hie Bristol City is ait Ayonmouth, where the Pinko is in a similar plight. A party of.over forty ex-servicemen and some ex-naval mein left Plymouth for the Majestic at Southampton. A batch of men left South Sliieltls for the purpose of signing on vessels lying m the Thames. Trouble has not oeen experienced in securing crews at the Tyne > where there are more applicants men signed on at Cardiff and Barry than berths. Nearly one hundred sealer isteamers whose crews at Bristol refused service. A statement by the committee of the Sailors’ anti Firemen’s Union declares that the strike is unofficial and was fomented for political purposes by Ithe minority movement of the Communist Party and Industrial Workers of the World. The intimidation of; members of the union in Australian and Souith African port® is a great tragedy, as the men now there signed the agreements, the terms of which were fully explained to them. Mr. Tom Walsh, the leader of the Australian Seamen’s Union, is not actually concerned in the wage question of British seamen, but mostly ■with the endeavour to disrupt interEJmpire trade. The statement emphatically denies that shipping is tied np throughout Britain, and says that ships are sailing on time, fully manned by union crews, who are determined to maintain the principle of collective bargaining. Mr. Havelock Wilson cabled to the and Firemens’ Union from Queas follows!: —“Make known to the press the fact that five hundred men in the catering department of the Empress of Scotland and the Mclninairn have transferred to our union. The men of all ships’here are determ inted to stand |>y the agreements with the owners. I am pleased to note that Shinwell is now in his right position with < the ‘Reds.: The attention of the Labour Party and the Trade Union congress should be calllled ito this fact.” The Seamen’is Union, referring to the frequently recurring reports of delays in signing oil, explains that the practice oif most liners is to .sign off and on the same day ait the end of the voyage, but .since the strike many crews have delayed signing on until they learn the facte of the situation. Hence the reported holdings np cabled 1 1*0.111 Alice tnailiia, arid Smith Africa, are only delays.

STRIKERS* BEFORE Tt IE COURT

CHA RGED' WITH DISOBEYING ORDERS.

OAFErrOWN, Sep. 1. Tlio Sophocles from England is. anchored tin the bay and. her crew is expedited to join the strike. She carries four ttlioiiisanul 'iininiigrante for Auistra--1 i'ai. Alb Durban when the crews of tlio Sandgate Ctetl© and Balmoral OasltJe were or-dered to get up steam they poiinh-ibilarrk refused. Si x wi H he charged in the police count with disobeying orders. Twelve .ships are now involved at Noltal. majority of the strikers regard the reported importation of Lasdaris as a bluff, expressing the opinion that the mhiip-owner.s would licit .seek trouble in such a manner.

OFFER TO THE MEN

NOT LIKELY TO BE ACCEPTED

IMM IC RAN T SH I P A ERECTED

SYDNEY. Sept. 2. The Oversea Shipping Representatives’ Association staled that the offer by the owners meant that there would be no victimisation oi strikers. The offer was made In good faith, with the sincere desire to see the men back at work. . The president of the strikers, in re--.»v said he regarded it as an insult. There was a . proper method of procedure, and the offer should have been made to the men’s representatives. He added that the men’s committee definitely refused the owners’ terms. A mass meeting to-morrow wi’l discuss the offer, but unless all the men s demands arc gained the strike will continue/ '■ hie concluded: “Any further offer must he made through official channels, the men’s representatives at the Trades Hal 1 or through the Australian Beamen’s Union.” The AVutersitiers’ Union met in camera. Later it was announced that the union’s, attitude towards the seamen’s strike-was unchanged. The/general president of the Australian Workers’' Union (Senator Barnes) stated that he agreed with Mr GrayndJer that any move for a general strike would he destructive to the very obfor which it is engineered. " “An official of the Australian transport group of unions has received a. private cab 1 © from London statin© that the British trades union group will probablv recommend that the seamen s strike in Australia he declared off temporarily. ~ The crew of the Borcla.. at Fremantle, decided to join the strike, states advice from Perth. They wifi carry out the ordinary port duties, but will not

take the ship to sea. The Bor da has 701 passengers, mostly assisted immigrants. It is rumoured in union circles that two hundred men have been appointed in Sydney to the new Federal police force. IN THE DOMINION. THE 1 SAME OFFER MADE. NO OTHER, DEVELOPMENTS. (ISY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Sep. 2. The New Zealand Shipping Company, the Shaw, Saviill and Albion Company, the Common weal tb and Dominion Line, and the Federal Line representatives in 'New Zealand advise that the British shipowners, jn the belief that tlio ‘seamen. have been misled, announce thait if the men return to their ships and resume duty not later than noon on Saturday next, the shipowners will be willing to waive their legal rights against the sfcrikens, and will agree that no other punishment, will be enforced. 'l'he shipowners repeat that they cannot and will not make any departure from the National Maritime Board’s rates, and that no settlement can bo made through, any unauthorised organisation, ais shipowners will not deviate frO’in the constitutional and accepted method of dealing with British seamen’s wages and conditions. AUCKLAND, Sep. 2.

There has been no further developments in the strike of British seamen at Auckland. The crews of the Ma,taka,na and the Denmarvah have not been affected ,so far. The Demarvah clonks Ito-morrow and sails on Friday for Sydney. The Zi.nal, whose crew are on strike, is expected to complete discharge torn o-nrorw ainicl will be docked. It der>end<? on "tlio 'srt'riko' he aibi© to sail nexfc week for Nauru Island. r Fhe Wonganeillliai with, phosphate from Nauru Island was unable to l discharge. r\ L , New Plymouth owing to the berths be,in© occupied by steamers held up hv Mi© istrike, and has been diverted to Auckland to unload. The crew are on Australian articles arid are nett expected .to strike.