AUSTRALIAN STRIKE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 5 August 1919, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN STRIKE.

MEN STANDING TO DECISION

MELBOURNE, Aug. 4: A mass meeting of seamen was suddenly . convened to consider a message from Walsh intimating that he did not desire that his imprisonment should stand in the seamen's way of accepting the Government's offer.

A round-table conference meeting resolved not to negotiate for a settlement through anyone else but Walsh.

The small loyalist-manned steamer Wauchope, while lying in quarantine, was totally destroyed by fire.

SYDNEY, Aug. 4. The crews of the Makura and Kakapo have been paid off. It is unofficially stated that,, as the articles of the crew of the Makura expire to-day, the men have decided to join the strikers.

BRISBANE, Aug. 4

As the result of the flour shortage caused by the shipping strike people at Cairns have been compelled to con-, sume bread made of pollard. The product closely resembles caked sawdust.