GOING TO ENGLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 26, 30 December 1925, Page 9

GOING TO ENGLAND.

WALSH TO LEAVE AUSTRALIA. Received December 30, 8.50 a.m. MELBOURNE, Dec. 30. The secretary of the new Seamen’s Union has announced that Mr T. Walsh is going to England at the end of January to take office as president of tho new Union of British Seamen, and will remain for twelve months. Press Association. THE NEW UNION. MEN NOT ENTHUSIASTIC. Received December 30, 10.20 a.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 30. The consensus of opinion at the Trades Hall is that tho British Seamen’s Union, formed during the recent strike, will bo disbanded owing to insufficient support. The leaders of most of tho new maritime unions were always, sceptical regarding the success of tho venture, pointing out that tho needs of the British seamen were already adequately met by Mr Havelock Wilson’s organisation. There was much opposition among tho rank and file to the proposal that Walsh should be allowed to organise the British seamen. It is understood that some branches have given Walsh to understand that ho must choose between the general presidency of tho Australian seamen and British seamen. At the seamen’s meeting yesterday Walsh did not ask for leavo of absence, as was-expected. It is reported that the British seamen are not enthusiastic about the new union, and many have expressed dissatisfaction at the manner in which Walsh conducted tho recent strike.— Press Association.