SEAMEN’S STRIKE
400 LICENSES J
ISSUED TO VOLUNTEERS.
(Australian Press Association.)
(Received this day at 11 a.m.)
v MELBOURNE, December 12
About for hundred, licenses wer e issued to seamen, firemen and others to-day. Three cargo vessels, Kovintht, Kowhai, and Goulburn are ready to sail for interstate ports with volunteer licensed crews.
The manager of the Union Company, Mr Soutar, says he has no knowledge of any trouble on the Wairuna. Probably the communist element are circulating mischievous rumours, A conference of Australian trades? Union council officials with local us!e--gates and also the strike committee of seamen reached no-decision last night and ar e continuing their talks to-day 4 Shipowners estimate that five hundred strikers ;ha've already (permanently lost their former employment as a result of the licensing system.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1935, Page 5
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