SHIPPING STRIKE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22191, 19 August 1935, Page 9

SHIPPING STRIKE

NO SETTLEMENT YET COMPULSORY CONFERENCE FIXTURE FOR WEDNESDAY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyriglii (Received August 18, 5.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Aug. 18 As the shipowners are determined not to employ the Murada men until all idle vessels are manned, it is reported that ther-3 is no immediate prospect of the seamen's strike ending, unless by order of the Court at the compulsory conference to be held next Wednesday. At a mass meeting in Melbourne yesterday sipeakers said they feared the shipowners intended to victimise the Murada men. It was decided to continue the strike pending a meeting of officers of the Federal executive in Sydney next Tuesday. Mr. F. Clarke, general president of the union, said tho owners' terms would not be accepted until an assurance was giver; that the Murada men would have the right to be selected at the first pick-up. The shipowners issued a statement to the effect that there is no change in their attitude, which was defined on Friday.

MANY IDLE SHIPS MEN'S LOSS IN WAGES NEARLY 1300 OUT OF WORK (flfeceived August 18. 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY. Aug. 16 The Union Stesm Ship Company's Ngakuta, the Adelaide Steamship Company's freighter Oorama, tho Howard Smith collior Period and tho frcichter Era were added to the list of idle vessels yesterday. Up to that timo 24 ships were tied up and about 1300 men, whose wages amounted to nearly £IOOO a day, were out of work. It will be competent for the compulsory conference on Wednesday to determine a basis for a settlement of the strike and to compel the observance cf its decisions.