SHIP DISPUTES
PLAN TO END STOPPAGES,
(Australian Press Association).
SYDNEY, April 26
The Federated Seaman’s Union today approved plans for amendments to its rules directed to overcoming shipping stoppages and sectional strikes, hitherto engineered by “shore seamen” —otherwise, unemployed members of the union—by which working seamen are often the victims.
Disputes involving stoppages in future must be decided by the rank and file throughout Australia. . The president, Mr T. Fleming, reported that he had recently visited New Zealand and cleared up misunderstandings arising out of the last strike in A working agreement between New Zealand and Australia had also been brought about.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1938, Page 6
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