DEADLOCK IN SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 11

DEADLOCK IN SHIPPING.

GRAVE AUSTRALIAN CRISIS. i . ■ .. . LABOUR PREMIER'S EFFORTS. SETTLEMENT NOT LIKELY. ' SEAMEN FINDING SUPPORT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 11.35 p.m.) A. and N.Z. ' SYDNEY, July 3. The State Premier, Mr. J. T- kans[, is making desperate efforts to reopen negotiations with the Prime Minister, Mr. S. M. Bruce, with a view to settling the shipping dispute, but there does not seem to be much prospect of Mr. Lang's intervention bearing the' fruits of industrial peace.

A meeting of the marine transport group of unions and the employees at Mort's Dock decided not to work the Hunter. The dock employees said they had no dispute with the dock management bnt, being unionists, they would stand by the working class and take the attitudo that until union labour was employed on the Hunter they would not work the steamer.

According to the ultimatum issued by the management the dock works will be closed on Monday. This will render idle 1600 men. Fifteen members of the crew of the Huddart-Parker steamer, Zealahdia, have handed in their notices. No reason for the action was given. The Federal representatives of the unions interested in the shipping dispute will meet on Monday when their attitude toward the trouble will be declared. At this meeting the gas and electric light employees will also announce their decision.

The secretary of the Sydney branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation, Mr. Seale, says the members of the union take strong exception to a statement recently published to the effect that the seamen desired the cargo of the steamer Canberra r.ot to be worked, but that the waterside workers opposed this. Mr. Seale says the Seamen's Union never at any time asked that the Canberra should be declared "black," or that her cargo should not be worked.