WATERSIDERS’ DISPUTE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 September 1928, Page 5

WATERSIDERS’ DISPUTE

POSITION AT SYDNEY. PASSENGER SERVICES HELD UP. DOMINION SHIPS UNAFFECTED. 'United Press .Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Recoived 11 a.jn. .to-day. SYDNEY, Sept. 13. Steamers trading to New Zealand and the Pacific islands will, according to present arrangements, continue to maintain their schedule. There is no hitch so far in regard to the Ulimaroo, which is sailing to-morrow at eight o ’clock. Vessels averaging 3000 tons are laid up at Sydney, and passenger services right round the coast have been suspended. West Australian travellers’ fares have been refunded, and they are being transferred to the trans-Aus-tralian railways.

WATERSIDERS ANXIOUS TO SETTLE. SECOND PICK-UP CLAUSE CONSIDERED OBNOXIOUS. Received 11.715 a.m. to-day. MELBOURNE, Sept. 13. The president of the Waters!ders ’ Federation. Mr Mather, states that his organisation is anxious to settle, the waterfront .trouble by constitutional means, feu't the second pick-up clause in Judge Beeby’s a ward, is so obit oxions that his .member's prefer to work under the old award, which actually prescribes lower rates of pay'. Alternatively, the federation prefers to tender for the whole landing of ships, the same as is already done in the case of wheat cargoes. . OHAOiS AT .SYDNEY. AFTERNOON PICK-UP FAILED. THE POSITION ELSEWHERE. (SYDNEY, Sept. 12. Afternoon pick-ups again failed on the .Sydney waterfront and shipowners have decided, in view of the chaos reign img, not to receive *anv more general cargo for shipment from iSydney to inter-State ports on the .mainland. Plenty' of labour was available at the morning pick-up and all vessels were worked. “(So far from seeking peace, the Waterside Workers’ Federation has taken ‘one more deliberate step 'to render chaos inevitable,” says a statement issued by the Overseas 'Shipping Representatives’ Association. “In the face .of the Wa'tersiders ’ 'action . their peace gestures are ‘obviously drisincerc. ’ ‘The men are still refusing fa work under the new award alt Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne. At the last-named port the shipowners nave cancelled all inter-State passenger bookings and state that if the dispute is not settled by Monday the owners will employ free labour. The 'State iCabinets in Now 'South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania have telegraphed to the Federal Prime Minister, 'the Rt. Hon. ,S. iM. Bruce, promising him every support. In reply' to 'Mr Bruce, the Hon. T. R. Bavin, the 'State Premier, has stated that the New iSoulth Wales Government would .(rive fullest co-operation in earrving out the law affording protection to all citizens who were prepared to carry on 'the 'Work of the marine transport industry under the terms of the award. The waterside workers’ conference at Melbourne by a big majority decided to affiliate with the Australian and New Zealand .Council of Trades Unions which will now have official power to act in the dispute. 'The ‘shipowners have refused a further request by the waters'iders for a conference, stating they would not meet the men’s representatives until work was resumed under the new award.