SHIPPING DISPUTE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1186, 8 December 1924, Page 5

SHIPPING DISPUTE.

ROPE HAWSERS CUT. OUTRAGE AT FREMANTLE. PERTH, Dec. 7. J n the early hours of Saturday morning an attempt was made at Fremantle to set the steamers Clan MaaNair and Port Bowen adrift. Jhe rope hawsers mooring them to the wharf were cut, hut the vessels were kept at the wharf by the steel hawsers. The men responsible for the outrage were surprised in the middle of their work and after a revolver shot had been fired, presumably from one of the ships, the miscreants escaped. All vessels tied up at the wharf are now substituting steel for rope hawsers.—Press Association. SYDNEY SHIPPING BUREAU. MR JUSTICE POWERS’ DECISION. .MELBOURNE, Dec. 7. In the Arbitration Court Mr Justice Powers gave his decision in the shipping dispute. He said he had no legal authority to abolish the shipping bureau in Sydney, but made an order preventing shipowners from insisting on men registering at the bureau as a condition upon which preference would lie grained, and threatened that if the union disobeyed his award he would consider favourably an application from the shipowners for the deregistration of the union. The men’s representative said the union would not accept the new terms. —Press Association. MORETON BAY DEPARTS. SYDNEY. Dec. 7. The Moreton Bay sailed without further trouble, after having been delayed since November 3.—Press Association.