OWNERS ADAMANT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 May 1928, Page 7

OWNERS ADAMANT.

JOB CONTROL AND ROSTER

MUST GO

Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m. -MELBOURNE, May 20. Mx. Appleton, chairman of the (Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ .Association, states that he sees no of settlement of the cooks’ dispute. The owners are now more deter-

.mined than ever to stand firm. They 1 .insist on the abolition of job control and.the roster system before malting any move to recommission the idle vessels.

It is stated that if the Australasian ■Council of Trades Unions asks the owners for a conference the latter will -question its authority to act and will jpoint out the conference's waste of time unless representatives are able to jirovc they are in a position to control the cooks.

It is estimated that by Monday the ■stike will have cost £500,000. The emergency executive of the Union .of Australasian Trades Union and the .committee of the Maritime Unions have ■decided that the Australasian Council of Trades Unions be empowefed immediately to seek a conference with the owners, and that the cooks be invited to attend the conference and participate in all future negotiations. The ■effect of the motion will be to put the ■cooks, in a position either of accepting •or rejecting mediation by the Australasian' Council of Trades Unions to which the Maritime Unions claim the dispute has now been officially referred.