COOKS SEEK DIRECT NEGOTIATION.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 May 1928, Page 5

COOKS SEEK DIRECT NEGOTIATION.

OWNERS ARE WILLING. BUT SHIPS MUST BE MANNED. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) Received This Day, 9.25 a.m. MELBOURNE, May -523. The Shipowners’ Association has received a telegram from Mr Tudehope secretary of the Marine Cooks’ Union, in Sydney, requesting a conference to discuss a settlement of the cooks' dispute, declaring that the Trades Union Council has no authority to act on the cooks’ behalf.

The shipowners’ secretary, Mr Biford, has replied, “We will meet your representatives, with or without represtatives of other bodies, to discuss a settlement. We have already informed you on two occasions of the terms on which we are ready to engage your members. These take nothing away from you to which you were previously entitled, but after the ships of all members of my organisation are fully manned, if there is any difficulty in regard to details, we are prepared to give consideration to any suggestion you may make.” A meeting of the combined committee of the Maritime Unions Afind the trades Union Council passed *&. resolution to resist to the utmost 'any attempt by the employers to engage nonunion labour for ships; also to resist the abolition of the roster system, which has been for years a condition of employment as well as a clause of the Cooks’ Union rules. The resolution also affirms that before the owners get their way in this matter the Arbitration Court should be consulted.

DIMSOOLA TO BE LAID UP.

(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) Received This Day 10.35 a.m. SYDNEY, May 23.

Another inter-State passenger vessel, the Dimboola, is to be laid up by the owners, as a result of the cooks’ strike, crew will be given 24 hours’ notice on the ship’s arrival from Western Australia.