SHIPPING STRIKE.
REPORT OF CESSATION. UNION GIVES DENIAL. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Oct. 26. An absolute denial of the statement that the shipping strike was off is given by a union representative, who also denied that the statement previously wired was made at the meeting on Saturday night. Mr F. Walsh, who presided, admitted that the position of the British seamen had been weakened, not by their own members, but by others working in New Zealand alongside with the farmers and business men who had taken the places of the striking seamen as free labourers. Mr A. Lees advised the seamen in the event of being forced to retreat to do so in an organised manner so that the British seamen would be able to make their organised pressure felt at a later period. It was stated officially by the chairman that the overseas dispute had been handed over to the Alliance of Labour unconditionally to be controlled by the alliance. The levy of 10s per month on seamen and a 21 per cent, levy on watersiders would be continued on behalf of the British seamen. FULL CREW FOR DEMODOCUS. Received October 26, 12.25 p.m. SYDNEY, Oct. 26. The steamer Demodocus has sailed, being manned with a full crew.—Press Association.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 277, 27 October 1925, Page 8
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210SHIPPING STRIKE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 277, 27 October 1925, Page 8
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