British Crews

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 186, 6 November 1925, Page 5

British Crews

Man Their Ships IN QUEENSLAND AND WESTRALIA IMMEDIATE GENERAL COLLAPSE EXPECTED. [By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.] (Received 6, 10.5 a.m.) Brisbane, Nov. 6. It was officially announced by die strike committee that the striking BrL isli seamen return to work to-day. Thecollapse of the strike followed the refusal of the watersiders to assist the seamen. The latter met and took a ballot which resulted in a majority m favour of resumption of work. T’ne Rimutaka sailed from Brisbane with a ful] crew. At Perth, a meeting of members of the crews of overseas vessels decided almost unanimously to accept the terms of settlement offered by the owners. OTHER, PORTS INFLUENCED. (Received 6, 10.40 a.m.) Sydney, Nov. 6. The collapse of the shipping strike in Wcstralia and Queensland has influenced the position in Sydney. Yesterday throe ships sailed with full There are also indications of the. strike ending in South Australia, whore the men are returning to work on the steamers AVestmorland and Balyanald. McCORMACK SHOWS FIGHT. GENERAL RAILWAY STRIKE THREATENED. (Received 6. 10.5 a.m.) Brisbane, Nov. 6. A stop work meeting <-f railwaymen at Bowen declared th© line there black. Thus, until a settlement of the disI pute is reached, trains will not be allowed to pass the Bowen station. It is now feared that a general strike oi railwaymen is imminent. Th© Premier, in a statement, said that so far as the Government is concerned. there is only one issue, and one only, whether the Government is prepared to allow its railway employees to be subject to the ’dictates and instructions of the oversea transport strike committee. Farmers are continuing to load the sugar ships at Bowen. Waterside work at Cairns is also proceeding satisfactorily. Afill workers in Proserpine decided to strike to-day as a protest against farmers handling sugar at Bowen. The Queensland Trades and Labour Council carried a motion repudiating the Premier. ?,lr. AlcCormack, considering he is not a fit and proper person to continue in office in view of the anti-working class attitude adopted by him in the present shipping strike. FASCISAI IN VICTORIA. MAY SERVE USEFUL PURPOSE. (Received 6. 10. 5 a.m.) Melbourne, Nov. 6. In the Assembly the Leader of he Opposition called upon the Premier to prevent the formation of a Fascist organisation in Victoria. He protested against the introduction of such movements in Australia. The Premier rcp.ied that if it could be shown that the Fascists were doing anything in.gal prompt steps would be taken, but if Fascism would prevent the slate of affairs recently witnessed in Westra’ia and Queensland, whore the Government forces failed to prevent disorder, there would be no objection to it.

AS GOOD AS ENDED. Sydney, Nov. 5. Tho crew of the oversea steamer Flsiston have joined the strikers. The prediction in industrial circles is that tho strike will end soon after the Federal elections and that tho ships held up will be manned and taken to England. Tho steamers Port Macquarie and Port Denison sailed to-day. NO GAIN FOR, THE WORKER. REMARKS BY MR. W. M. HUGHES. The Communist menace was referred to in forcible terms in a speech last week by Air. W. Al. Hughes, ox-Prime Alinistcr of Australia and at present a candidate for re-election for North Sydney to the Fedora] parliament. “Every improvement in their conditions and wages, the wharf labourers and seamen have gamed through constitutional methods,” said Air. Hughes.

“Since 1917 1 admit there have been strikes, but what have they done for theso men? They have gained nothing. Let Air. Walsh—who one would think was a new Aloses sent to guide an oppressed people from Hie wilderness—.show one improvement that direct and violent action has gained for the men, and I will place beside it 20 that fb.ey have reaped with reasonable ami peaceful agitation.” “But the Communists care nothing for the improvements of the workers’ conditions here. They desire only that these conditions may grow so intolerable that the men will turn to any avenue of escape. And the Communists say, ‘The wav may be long and bloody, but it will bo well worth while.’ “Australia has the best-fed and the best-clothed people in the world. .Although Australia is in this excellent position wo are in danger, 4 for the Communists have sot about to undermine us. io take away our prosperity, that m misery our security may crumble. Tho standard of our living is kept up by the money we receive from the sale of our products overseas, and these people aro preventing us from carrying our merchandise across the seas, ami so are aiming a death blow at the heart of the worker himself. “•Possibly imply of you think I lay ioo great a stress on this menace, but 1 tell yen it exists not only in Australia but throughout tho world today. Lt is a battle in a great clai - war. A war io tho knife by which an ever-increasing number of people have coneentrated their forces for the destruction of society, that, on the soil wet by the blood of those wh.o will not bow the knee io the new tyrants, may grow an order in which men like Gorden and Walsh will occupy high positions.”