SHIPPING TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1925, Page 3

SHIPPING TROUBLE.

| Australia it X.Z. Cable Association. _, MURE STEAMERS HELD FP. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, July Id. 'The latest move in the shipping trouble is the tying up of the Howard -tmiih's Cov's steamer Kanowua. The crew have liven paid oil. Throe of the Adelaide Company's steamers. the Barungn, Ruldiue ami Dundala have been placed on the idle .Ist anil the nimnnny has decided not :.o put them into commission alter iverliatt I ing owing to the uncertain ir.sition. MORE SHIRS ’TO HE TIED UP. SYDNEY. July Li. The shipping I rouble will take on a more acute phase to-morrow, when it is understood, the men employed on all the coastal steamers will give notice, file Seamen’s Union "ill not fill their glare-, and the vessels will he idled. MEETINGS CA I.i.T.D. SYDNEY. July 13. Meetings have been called of various t,ranches of the Federated Seamens I'mon to reconsider the threat- issued •to shipowners that the men will he withdrawn if the demands are not conceded. A conference has also been culled by the Commonwealth Steamship Owners Association of all shipowners. at which a common understanding on their attitude towards the seamens' demand will be sought.