All Ships Manned by Week-end
End of Strike in Sight OWNERS’ OFFER WILL BE ACCEPTED United Press Association. —By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Wednesday, Midnight MELBOURNE, Aug. 21. After a two hours’ discussion the compulsory conference of shipping parties concluded, but by agreement between the parties no statement was issued. Judge Dethridge presided. Mr. W. Clark, president of the Seamen’s Union, at a later stage expressed the opinion that all ships would be manned by the week-end. Received Thursday, 2 a.m. MELBOURNE, Aug. 21.
A tentative offer made by the shipowners to lhe seamen will be submitted to a mass meeting of seamen at .Sydney on Friday and it is regarded as practically certain to be accepted.
The seamen’s representatives at the conference had been empowered to negotiate the best possible terms for a settlement and concentrated chiefly on the remission of tho penalties imposed on certain members of the crew of the Murada who were dismissed and debarred from further engagement in other vessels owing to their refusal to take the vessel to sea.
Tho shipowners on thoir part adhered to their original right of free selection of men at pickups and reiterated their promise not to discriminate against the Murada men invfuture calls for men providing tho strikers return to their ships.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 197, 22 August 1935, Page 7
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