SHIPPING DISPUTE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 224, 21 August 1935, Page 7

SHIPPING DISPUTE.

SYDNEY SEAMEN

COMMITTEE HANDLING CASE.

SYDNEY, Aug. 20.

The seamen held another mass meeting at Sydney to-day, when it was decided, after a temperate discussion of their grievances, to leave matters in the hands of the committee of management/, which will present their case at the compulsory conference before the chief industrial registrar (Mr Murray Stewart) at Melbourne to-morrow. The outcome of the conference will be placed before a further mass meeting of seamen on Thursday or Friday.

MANNED BY VOLUNTEERS,

VESSEL AT BRISBANE

SYDNEY, Aug. 20. There was a surprising development in the strike to-night when the James Patrick and Company freighter Graigend sailed for Brisbane with a volunteer crew. James Patrick and Company are outside the Australian Steamship Owners’ Federation, and therefore have no voice in the terms of settlement.

When the call for a. volunteer crew was made to-day and a large number, including unionists, offered, a frantic effort was 'made by officials of the Seamen’s Union to dissuade the company from engaging the men, but as a sufficient number had already signed on for six months the company was not prepared to turn back. Thus former members of the crew will find themselves without jobs when a settlement occurs.

The stewards agreed to work with the volunteers, but the cooks quitted and others replaced them on the spot. It is believed the waterside workers at Brisbane will handle the cargo of the Craigend in order not to jeopardise their licenses.