COASTAL SEAMEN

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 March 1926, Page 7

COASTAL SEAMEN

EXTRA EDITION.

DISSATISFIED WITH STRIKE. EXTENSION PROPOSAL FAILS. COMPLAINTS OF BLACKLEGGING. BY ''ABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received 1.25 p.m. to-day. SYDNEY, March 11. The possibilities .of an extension of the coastal shipping .strike to the interstate 1 services was discussed at a meeting of the Seamen’s Union. Certain extremists favoured an all-in policy which would mean the withdrawal o,f seamen .from inter-State ships. The majority of members,. however, manifested a strong disinclination to bring about farther trouble. The general feeling was that the union had already been hard hit by the coastal trouble, which, they said, should be settled as soon aw possible. Complaints were freely made that members of the maritime unions were blacklegging by volunteering to take seamen’s places, and requests were made for a searching inquiry. Jacob Johnson said that if the seamen they had no chance of winniijg they shoud make peace on the best terms they could. Resolutions were carried that the branch executive use every means to bring the istrike to a satisfactory issue and that a committee should be appointed to ascertain the extent of blacklegging and takel steps to prevent it.