STRIKE ENDS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1936, Page 2

STRIKE ENDS

AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN. CREWS FOR SHIPS. ISO DEARTH OF MEN. (United Press Association—By Electric i Telegraph.—Copyright.) - Received January 21, 10.25 a.m. SYDNEY. Jan. 21. A prominent shipowner said to-day : “So far as the shipping companies are concerned there is no seamen’s strike in force at present. All ships laid up in South Australia, Victoria, and Queensland have been manned and the vessels still idle in Sydney are being manned as required. There is no dearth of men.”

SEAMEN’S UNION

MR JOHNSON BARRED. MELBOURNE, Jan. 20. The seamen have decided not to recognise Mr Jacob Johnson, Federal secretary of the union. When Messrs Johnson and Casey (the Queensland secretary), attempted to enter the Trades Hall to-day to attend the conference called by tbe A.C.T.U., they encountered a large picket of seamen who jeered and abused them and forcibly prevented their entering tbe buiiding. The conference decided that neither Mr Keenan nor Mr Johnson should lie recognised as general .secretary until the general president (Air Clarke) gave his ruling. It also decided not to admit Mr Johnson to further conferences of the unions. Mr Clarke, who did not attend the conference, said Air Keenan was not elected according to the rules.