SHIPPING STRIKE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 284, 4 November 1925, Page 9

SHIPPING STRIKE.

ULIMAROA DISPUTE i _j. OWNERS’ REPLY TO UNION. ' SYDNEY, Nov. 3. Despite the offer of the seamen to refer the dispute regarding the Ulimaroa to the Conciliation Board, there is little likelihood of her being immediately commissioned. The Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association has informed the Seamen’s Union that it cannot now consider the case of tho .Ulimaroa until the union undertakes unconditionally to mail the Karoola, Werribec and Barwon, which are also held up. —Press Association. VESSEL aFrIFT. AIOORING LINES CUT. BRISBANE, Nov. 3. At an early hour this morning it was discovered that someone had cut the mooring lines of the steamer Autolycus and set her adrift. Fortunately the tide was slack, or the vessel might have swung out and drifted on to the opposite mud bank. —Press Association. FARMERS’ PROTECTION. AVORKERS AT CAIRNS. Received November 4, 10.5 a.m. BRISBANE, Nov. 4. Work is proceeding quietly at Cairns. The watersiders are working cargo under protection of the farmers, after the latter’s rout of the Communists.—Press Association. RAI LWAYMEN’S ACTION. PREMIER ISSUES WARNING. Received November 4, 10.5 a.m. BRISBANE, Nov. 4. Following on the refusal of the railwaymen at Bowen to deliver coal to the wharves, the Premier announced that the Government would he compelled to take steps to see that its authority was not undermined. The Premier previously had threatened the men with dismissal if they refused to handle the coal.—Press Association. RETURN TO WORK. ORSOVA’S SEAMEN ACCEPT OAVNERS’ TERAIS. Received November 4. 10.5 a.m. PERTH, Nov. 4. The situation at Fremantle is quiet. The seamen of the Orsova agreed to accept the owners’ terms and return to work.—Press Association. POLICE ARMED. RIFLES AND BAYONETS ISSUED. PERTH, Nov. 3. The police at Fremantle have been issued with rifles and bayonets to withstand any further onslaught should it eventuate. It is thought, however, that this is unlikely in view of the severe handling tho strikers received. —Press Association. MARINE WORKERS’ UNION. NO INVITATION TO WALSH. LONDON, Nov. 2. The secretary of the Amalgamated Marine Workers’ Union, which is a rival to Mr Havelock Wilson’s union, states that he knows nothing of tho story from Australia that Toni Walsh is coming to England to form a new seamen’s union, lie adds: “We did not send any invitation.”-—A. and N.Z. cable. WONGANELLA DISPUTE. ARBITRATION ACTION. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 3. One of the demands of the watersiders in regard to the unloading of prospliates from the Wonganella is a proposal that an independent chairman be elected to preside, over tho meeting of the Local Disputes Committee. The watersiders proposed that the Rev. J. K. Archer or Mr J. McCombs should act, but the employers opposed the suggestion, and for that reason a deadlock occurred yesterday. This morning advice was recieved that the National Disputes Committee, to whom the question of an independent chairman had been referred, has in turn referred the matter to the Abitration Court, who will elect a chairman i PORT DARWIN SEAMEN. ALL BUT SIX LOYAL. Per Press Association. GISBORNE, Nov. 4. All but six of the seamen brought from Wellington to join tho Port Darwin have embarked on the vessel.