SHIPPING STRIKE

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 October 1925, Page 9

SHIPPING STRIKE

A UNION SQUABBLE.

BRITISH SEAMEN’S CASE. SUBMITTING IT TO ARBITRATION. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Oct. 22, 12.30 p.m. SYDNEY, Uct. 22. The Herald connrms me news of a squabble in the Australian Seamen’s Union. A meeting was held in response to a requisition by a number of members led by Mr. Joiiaiunsen, who submitted a resolution demanding that the British seamen be asked to refrain from .submitting their claims to the Arbitration court. The motion also deplored the action of Mr. Walsh in advising the men to go to the court and make a threat ttiiat the Australian seamen would withdraw all support from the strikers if the latter continued to resort to arbitration.

After a lengthy and heated debate, the motion Was overwhelmingly defeated, and the meeting decided to continue to support the strikers.

COAL FOR REFRIGERATORS. CAUSES TROUBLE AT BRISBANE. LINE DECLARED “BLACK.” Received Oct. 22, 12.30 p.m. BRISBANE, Oct. 22. When the crew of the steamer Palmer, belonging to John Burke, Limited, learned that the ship had loaded coal for the refrigerating plant on the steamer Port Hardy, anchored in Whitsunday Passage, they refused to take the ship to sea and a non-union crew Was obtained. The Sleamen’is Union thereupon decared all the Burke line vessels .“black.” Firemen on the steamer Barrabool repudiated the agreement with the owners and refused to continue to maintain the refrigerating plant. Engineers and officers have taken over their duties in order to keep the plant working.

VOLUNTEER LABOUR. TO WORK IDLE SHIPS. Received Oct. 22, 12.3 op.m. MELBOURNE, Oct. 22. The overseas shipping representatives have decided to advertise for volunteer. labour to work idle ships. Firemen on the steamer Ceramic have joined the strikers. MORE SEAMEN IN COURT. DUNEDIN, Oct. 22. At the Police Court, R. Walker and B. Howe, Horprata seamen, pleaded guilty to wilful disobedience, stating that they had refused duty when they discovered the rest of the crew were not coming aboard. They were sentenced to four weeks’ imprisonment. J. Russell and A. Spingall, Raranga seamen, were charged with desertion, and were remanded till it was ascertained whether the company desires the trial to be held at Lyttelton or Dunedin.