AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 14 June 1919, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

MODERATE MEN WILLING TO RESUME.

LATER REPORT THAT STRIKE WILL CONTINUE.

GOVERNMENT'S VIEW

LAW AND ORDER CHALLENGED

SYDNEY, June 13. The moderate section of seamen have issued an appeal stating that they are prepared to resume work immediately if the owners grant an increase of 20s monthly and a six hours' • working day when in port. The other claims are to be placed before, the Arbitration Court. feater. A mass meeting of seamen elected another executive. The men believe that the strike will continue for some time. MELBOURNE, June 13. Replying to a deputation of union secretaries asking for relief owing to tli« strike distress, Mr Watt described tht seamen's strike as the most disastrous that had ever occurred., because theGovernment and law were practically challenge. The Government would j stand to the law. H« promised to cooperate with the State Government in relieving distress, but not that of those who had struck.

ADELAIDE, June 13. Officials of the Seamen's Union have tendered their resignations as a protest against the action of the Federal Council in not taking a ballot on the question of submitting the dispute to arbitration.