SEAMEN’S STRIKE FINALLY SETTLED
Less Employment Forecasted SHIPOWNERS’ LOSSES TOTAL' £2,000.000 (By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Auat. and N.Z. Cable Association.'.! (Received Sunday 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, November 28. The British seamen's strike was finally settled yesterday afternoon. The terms provide for payment of wages up to the time of the refusal of duty'and for the- men to start again with a clean sheet. No wages .will'- be paid for the time they remained on strike, and there is no be victimisation or fines. The men will be absorbed as ships offer. Those failing to be absorbed are* free to make application for return home as distressed seamen. (Received Sunday 7 p.m.) LONDON November 28. The shipowners, announcing the end of the strike in Australia, declare the strikers loss of wages aggregated a very lare sum. Dislocation of services must be reflected in less employment for some time to come, as a number of steamers cannot return to Britain for several months. The only gainers by the strike have been foreign shipowners. The losses exceed £2,000,000,
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2309, 30 November 1925, Page 7
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173SEAMEN’S STRIKE FINALLY SETTLED Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2309, 30 November 1925, Page 7
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