COASTAL SHIPS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 1 December 1927, Page 5

COASTAL SHIPS

NOT TO BE INVOLVED IN STRIKE

(Received Ist Dec., 11.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Officials of the Watersiders’ Federation had a long conference with the leaders of the Seamen’s Union and it was decided that the overtime strike should not extend to coastal ships. Officials declined to give reasons why inter-State vessels should be free from the overtime embargo, but made it clear that the watersiders would not transfer inter-State cargo from coastal vesselg which Were loaded by non-members of the federation at coastal ports. > If the watersiders refuse to work today, in accordance with the shipowners’ terms a number of steamers will be laid up and the crews paid off. In anticipation of a deadlock the crews of four inter-State steamers have been given 24 hours’ notice, and other vessels will take similar action to-day if the trouble is hot settled. / MELBOURNE, This Day. 'The refusal of the watersiders to accept the terms of employment offered iby the shipowners has idled nine vessels, ‘ and' in several cases the crews have .been paid off and the ships tied up ' indefinitely. At the Geelong wool sales buyers refuged to operate owing to the waterside dispute, and sales were postponed until the following day.