COOKS' OVERTURES

Northern Advocate, 19 May 1928, Page 9

COOKS' OVERTURES

TRADES MEDIATION

APPEAL FOR A CONFERENCE

SET PLEMENT IMPROBABLE. r

(Australian Press Association.) (Received 5.44 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day.

The Australian and New Zealand Council of Trades Unions telephoned to the Shipowners' Association asking if the latter would grant a conference to discuss the cooks' dispute, but were informed that nothtog couid be done in the matter until the chairman of the Association, who is in Sydney, returned, when the request would be placed before him. Individual shipowners, however, point out that even if a conference were granted it could be taken as no great guarantee that peace is in sight, as the owners' recent telegram to Mr Tudehope, Federal secretary of the Marine Cooks' Union, made it quite clear that there could be no settlement unless the men made a sincere move to man the ships and agreed to abolish the roster svstem.

If Mr Jacob Johnson 's following refuse to accept mediation by the Australian and New Zealand Council of Trades Unions, they will be disciplined bv the whole Labour movement.

COLD RECEPTION.*

TERMS MUST BE OBSERVED,

HUDDART-PAR.KER LOSS £IOO,OOO,

(Australian Press Association.) (Received 1.1 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. A Howard Smith collier will be tied up today and the crew of 38 idled, due to the cooks' strike. Mr J. Tudehope left Sydney today and will attend a meeting of his union to report.

The latest development in Melbourne is that Mr C. Crofts, chairman of "the Australian and New Zealand Council of Trades Unions, had "an informal interview with Mr Appletqn, chairman of the Shipowners' Federation, upon the -latter'd return from Sydney, seeking to reopen, negotiations for a settlement.

Mr Appleton replied that the- factthat the unions had come to some sort of agreement among themselves seemed by'them to be regarded as a settlement of the strike, but the' owners had not been consulted. He reminded Mr Crofts that the Huddnrf-Parker Company had lost £IOO,OOO, which was not recoverable, whatever settlement was reached, The terms on which the owners were prepared to settle had already been set forth and would be insisted upon. The owners demanded abolition of the roster system, and declined to give a guarantee of employment to members of the Cooks' Union under the conditions of the suspended award. If Mr Crofts would make a formal "request for a conference with the shipowners he would place the application before them on Monday. Beyond that he would say nothing.

PERSISTENT DEMAND

EXTRA MAN FOR GALLEY.

(Australian Press Association.).. (Received .11.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This. Day. Mr Tudehope, .before leaving for Sydney, addressed a mass meeting of cooks, tracing the history of tho dispute. Subsequently he said that he still insisted on an extra man for the Ulimaroa's galley. The meeting unanimously passed a resolution of confidence in Mr Tudehope.