SHIPPING DISPUTE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 18 July 1925, Page 7

SHIPPING DISPUTE

PROSPECTS OF SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK GUARANTEE AGAINST JOB CONTROL DEMANDED (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) iAut t\»4 ivai & N.'A. Cable Association.) -MELBOURNE. July 17._ The prospects of a settlement- in t'ne shipping dispute are brighter. Ibe Shipowners’ Association announced thatii would meet the Trades Hall Disputes Committee oil Tuesday, in conference, with a view to arriving at a settlement. The proposed basis of settlement is that the transport group guarantees that job control shall not he practised by the Seamen’s Union. The shipowners undertake to place on the articles a statement. that- the terms of the cancelled award be observed, two clauses of this •award to be altered enabling the shipowners to penalise crews attempting job control: the altered clauses to be placed iu the articles and the seamen to sign the agreement. SYDNEY, July 17. Six leaders of the Seamen’s Union have gone to Melbourne to participate in the conference. Ihe Disputes Committee and owners later decided not to insist that tile seamen resume duty Tiefore negotiations commenced. EIGHTY-SEVEN VESSELS LAID UP SYDNEY. July 17. Owing to the North Coast Company employing non-union S'eany.m, the stewards have been instructed by the union to hand in notices. There are now 87 vessels and 3305 employees idle in Australian ports. COASTAL SHIPPING VOLUNTEERS- RESPONSE TO .CALL SYDNEY, This Day. The. restoration of coastal shipping services is assured as a result of the response received by the hip owner to the call for volunteer crew. Already several coasters have been dispatched. Ine men are all qualified seamen and firemen, most of whom have been out of employment a long time. Some wore British seamen who were forced out- of work because the local union refused to* allow them to enter the ranks on arrival in Australia. Loading is being. done by the Watersiders’ Federation. Discussions regarding the possibility o! State Governments running an interstate line are proceeding, stated Mr Lang. He addetl that West Australian labour, which was so vitally concerned in shipping matters, was eager for the adoption of tlie proposal. (United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The Niagara is due on Monday from \ ancouyer, but does not go on to Sydney owing to the shipping strike. She returns to* Vancouver on the schedule date.