TERMS REJECTED

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 September 1925, Page 5

TERMS REJECTED

_ * — BOTH SIDES FIRM. FAILURE OF CONFERENCE. STRIKE SITUATION GRAVE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, Sept. 24. The strike position is much graver owing to the failure of the conference. The owners proposed at the conference that the men should return to the ships' on the original articles and that there should be no further prosecutions. Clean discharges were also promised, conditional on their behaviour on the return voyage to England. The owners also stated that there would Ive no remission of the tines imposed on the strikers by the courts or the masters, and that any grievances the men considered they had must he dealt with nv the Board of Trade on their return 'Uji England. The men’s representatives retired to consider the terms, but after two minutes’ deliberation returned and announced that, speaking for all the stnkers in AnstraJin- and N-ew Zealand, they rejected the proposals. Mr Johnstone, chairman of the strikers’ committee, then submitted the men’s terms, which were an immediate resumption of. work if the wages in force in July last' were restored, the men to be paid full wages for the time they Were on strike-; no victimisation, and all records of imprisonment to he wiped out; also that at any future conference there should lie representatives of the Australian Seamen’s Union. The owners, without waiting to consider the proposals, refused them, and the men’s representatives left. • Subsequently Mr Johnstone stated that the strikers would not approach the owners iu future. The termswhich were , submitted were the only terms on. which the men would resume, and until the owners agreed to accept these there would be no surrender. It is. understood the service ot warrants, -which was suspended pending the result of the conference, will be proceeded with immediately. Delegates from the AYatersiders’ Fedef at ion and the Commonwealth Labour Council continued their conference with the owners’ representatives, but the strikers state that any decision which might be arrived at not including the terms already stated would he useless: . The Oversea Shipping Representatives’ Association announces that the offer which was originally made the men. that if they returned to work there would be no victimisation and that the wages of the strikers would be paid expired on September 4, a'nd has not since been renewed. A number of the electrical staff m the construction of the North Shore bridge has been temporarily put oft, as a large quantity of material is held up. afT South African and other ports between Sydney and London as a result of the seamen’s strike. So far only the workshops are affected, but if the strike continuies another six weeks the actual construction of the bridge will be affected. At Melbourne the stevedores declined to handle the cargo of the steamer Lea on a s the portion of the crew who struck were left behind at Port Pirie. A number of passengers from the Orsova who were held up at Fremantle 4 for over a month, arrived by special 11 The Nationalist Party' conference adopted a resolution recommending that the Arbitration Act be amended to provide that in the event of an industrial dispute arising in any union or organisation a- soorot ballot should be taken before a strike is declared Tn the South Australian Assembly. Mr H. N. Bar well moved a motion of censure on the Government for its svV.-ogod notion in (‘o-opGrating "witTi the New South Wales Government in opnosing the enforcement of the Deportafon Act. The gag was applied, and th emotion was defeated.

deportation board attacked SYDNEY. Sept. 24. -Vt the Deportation Board. Dr. Eyatt. counsel for Walsh, attacked the validity oC the hoard. He quoted the statement of the Federal 1 rime Minister PVLi S M. Bruce) that the members of the hoard were receiving 25 guineas daily Dr. Evatt said it was the duty of the board to make ail independent inquiry, hut. on the statement ol Mr Bruce the' Government, which was an interested party in the inquiry was the actual paymaster. When a party interested in any inquiry was shown to be the paymaster, the resut 1 , in law was that the inquiry was of no legal effect whatever. - V SENT TO CAOL. ANOTHER BATCH OF SEAMEN. Received Sept. 25, 11.5 a.m. MELBOURNE, Sept. 25. \ Another 150 British seamen have " ] K , OII S ent to gaol in connection with the strike.

GIVEN IN. AFRICAN STRIKE CALLED OFF. '••• CAPETOWN, Sept. 24. Thet Durban strike committee has passed a. resolution calling off the strike, the men accepting the present varies arid conditions, an investigation ancf reorganisation of the Maritime Board, no victimisation, and the release of the imprisoned strikers, should the seamen ratify the resolution, it is proposed to cal', a commence of strikers and owners.

AGAINST UNIONISM. OBJECTIVE OF STRIKE. r.ONDON, Sept. 23. The Pailv Herald, the Labour paper, publishes an appeal to seamen by Mr Henson, assistant secretary of the -Seamen’s Union, who says: “I have the full authority of the executive committee for saying that the present strike is not against the employers, lmt against trade unionism ‘.‘lt is monstrous that Mr E. Shinwed (organiser of the Marine Workers Union) and company should oaff members loyal to the union blacklegs. -Mi Shinwell is actively assisting the Communists to do a serious disservice to the labour movement in Australia . the strike fomented by the Communists piesen ted the anti-Labourites in the Commonwealth with a first rate election “If Labour is defeated at the elections it will be thanks to Mr Shinwell %nd bra Communist colleagues.’