COOKS’ STRIKE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 May 1928, Page 5

COOKS’ STRIKE

SETTLEMENT NEGOTIATIONS. ME TUDEHOPE AT WORK. EFFECTS OF THE HOLD-UP. iUNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—UV ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received 10.45 a.m. to-clay. MELBOURNE, May 01. . Mr Tudehope, general secretary of the Marine, Cooks’ Union, had a private interview with Mr Appleton, the owners’ representative.. Interviewed' later, Mt Tudehopo sai'd that contain points were discussed, as a, result. 'Of which several phases lin'd been clarified. Ho left for Sydney 'last night to attend a meeting of Ms union, and will explain the outcome of this conversation some time to-day. Before leaving Mr Tudehope explained that ft.t was quite competent for the cooks at te-day’s meeting to accept the terms offered and declare the strike off. Tihe steamer Ormiston, the only passenger* vessel in commission on the Australian coast, will not he laid up, but the Katoom'ba’s' crew will he paid off to-day. The Maritime Unions calculate . that about 8350 men are directly or indirectly idle through the strike, and 1 the loss of wages • amounts to £38,000 weekly.

CONTROL OF THE DISPUTE

WANTED BY TRADES UNION COUNCIL. MELBOURNE, May 30. A conference of the Australasian Council of Trades' Unions'and the maritime unions associated with it, decided to ask the rank and' file of the Marino Cooks’ Union to place the dispute ini their hands. It was also decided to. ask the Sydney Trades Hall Council to summon a meeting of the Cooks’ Union to be addressed by members of the Australasian Council of Trade® Unions and the maritime unions.

The coimforence further decided to ask the Waterside Workers’ Federatiom to reappoint its delegates 'to the Australasian Council of Trades Unions in OTder that a combined front might be presented on the maritime dispute. Mr Tudehope is to be invited to eo J operate, but it. is realised the decision is practically an attempt to get the members of the Cooks’ Union to recognise the l authority of the Australasian Council of Trades Unions to handle the dispute, and that if Mr Tudehope stands in the way the dispute may be taken out of his hands.