MARINE COOKS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 1 June 1928, Page 5

MARINE COOKS

REJECT OWNERS’ OFFER. AN ABJECT SURRENDER. THEIR IDEA OF THE TERMS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TEL EG R A PH—CO PYRIG HT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) SYDNEY, May 31. A meeting of marine cooks is considering the dispute and Mr Tudehope’s report of hi§ Melbourne negotiations. So far no finality has been reached, but it is understood the prospects of a settlement were never brighter. Shipping representatives have refused to comment on the position beyond stating that the next move must be made by the men. Received 10.35 a.m. to-day. SYDNEY, June 1. The cooks at t-heir meeting rejected the .shipowners ’ terms and agreed to carry on the strike. Mr Tudehope, .their secretary, issued a statement to this effect after the meeting. He reviewed the negotiations and at the same time denied the report that he had spurned the assistance of the Watersider Workers’ Union towards a settlement. Mr Tudehope declared that it was unanimously agreed that the shipowners’ terms, particularly in regard to the right of free selection of labour and the abolition of the roster, amounted to nothing short of am abject surrender, which the cooks would not tolerate.

The Labour Council adopted a resolution recommending the Cooks ’ Union to call a. mass mooting to be addressed by representatives of all maritime unions and the Trades 1 Union Council, “in order to settle the strike on a basis satisfactory .to members of the Cooks’ Union.’’