WATERSIDE TROUBLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15514, 22 January 1914, Page 7

WATERSIDE TROUBLE.

SHIPPING EMBARRASSED, -'■..-■ , * ~ " MENACE TO UNIONISM.''

OPINION- OF MR. *Wr-HUGHES. By Telegraph-jPress -AsspoiAtiottfTCepjfigh.t*' The strike of the wharf Sboiifws working overtime continues, and shipping is much embarrassed. . '" ~

In .an official statement pjibiish6[J".iO:dayi by the Steamship Owners' Association-,-it is complained that the men acted without} any -warning, against the assuranoe. givea , to the companies that the work would ' proceed without interruption. The statement points out that serious, inconvenience! -< has 'caused to shipowners,, including the Union Company, which had to send the Maheno to Newcastle on Friday night,- - with 250 tons of undischarged : - cargo,.; aboard. The Union Company's wharf is • also greatly congested, and altogether. 100$ tons of outward cargo have been shut" out - of the company's steamers." ..... Mr. W, M. Hughes (president of th« union) attributes the wharf trouble Ho"*; I handful of irresponsible extremists who a'rs '■' a menace to unionism and a hundred times. ■ more dangerous than the forces'of capital- ~ ism. They flout the decisions of their own unions as.readily as they-do: the laws.of -\ the country. Unionism, if it is to survive,,; : must deal with them. He hoped that ths Sydney branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation would realise the vital import- ; ance of the matter and not' permit itself to be shipwrecked. MELBOURNE STEVEDORES. ' • Melbourne, January 21;./ -■, & The stevedores by a. big majority :: , - decided to continue work: pending- a. iw-. either conference with the shipowners.'* .""/".''*■ THE WALLAROO POSITION ": Adelaide, January ,21..;. %-. The position of the Wallaroo strike, is • still unchanged. Vessels are not- being;; worked, and large quantities of wheat ara-. waiting to be loaded. : ""'-?*,'' :..'f? ; :i,'.)..<[