STRIKE ENDED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 12

STRIKE ENDED

SEAMEN'S DECISION SHIPS TO BE MANNED / —— OWNERS' TERMS ACCEPTED OVERWHELMING MAJORITY WANGANELLA SAILS By Telegraph—Presa Association—Copyright (Rfceived August 25, 5.5 p.m.> SYDNEY. Aug. 25 The seamen's strike has ended and all vessels are to be manned. Full activity has been restored on tho waterfront. At a /mass meeting attended by 1500 yesterday morning the seamen decided by an overwhelming majority to accept the owners' terms. The decision was received with cheers. The Wanganella sailed for Auckland at 8 o'clock last evening. It is estimated that the shipowners' losses in the strike totalled £30,000, ■while the seamen's loss of wages amounted to several thousands of pounds. The terms offered by the owners were that, subject to the union and its members declaring the strike off and offering for all ships in terms of the existing agreement between tho owners and tho union, all owners would instruct their picking-up officers to select suitable men for the in-mediate manning of ships, whether the men had very good, good or indifferent discharges arising out of the present trouble, and that they bo selected without discrimination. < Tho acting-Federal Attorney-General, Mr. T. C. Brennan, in a message from Melbourne, said the Government was gratified that the strike was over. There was a minority of Communists among the seamen and proof existed that they had been, very active on this occasion. " No doubt,," he added, " we owe a great deal to tho wives of tho seamen, whose influence was almost cortainly on the side of commonsense." The / James Patrick Company's steamer Carlisle, manned by a'volunteer crew, sailed late on Friday night for Melbournei. The local office of Huddard-Parkor. Limited, has received advice that tho Wanganella left Sydney on Saturday evenibg 'and is due at Auckland on "Wednesday morning. Tho vessel had 84 passengers, in addition to a larco quantity of cargo from Melbourne and Sydney, for Auckland. After discharge she is to leave Auckland for Wellington at 5 p.m. on Thursday and she is scheduled to clear Wellington on Saturday afternoon for Sydney and Melbourne. CRAIGEND AT BRISBANE '/ UNLOADING PROCEEDING BRISBANE. Ann. 24 The Trades and Labour Council permitted the wharf labourers to handle the cargo of tho Patrick steamer Craigend. which earlier in tho weekwas manned by volunteer labour at Sydney./'