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SEAMEN'S BIG LOSS OWNERS AND VOLUNTEERS SYDNEY. Feb. 21 A meeting of the Melbourne Seamen's Union last evening decided, by an overwhelming majority, to return to work. The discussion was definitely acrimonious. The local secretary, Mr. W. J. Clarko, said the Sydney proposal was an indication of the confidence tricks used by the strike committee to smother its mistakes. He still refused to recognise Mr. James Keenan as general secretary and claimed that Mr. Keenan had wrecked the union. The seamen at Newcastle and Brisbane also have decided to return to work. Prominent shipowners state that the licensing system on the waterfront will ensure peace for the future. They estimate that 75 per cent of the volunteer seamen will be retained. "We must stand by the men,who came to our aid, although quite a number of these men are content with having broken the strike and are prepared, even anxious, to return to the occupations in which they were engaged before the strike. " However, a large percentage of former seamen who gave us long and faithf-jl service are not likely to be reemployed. estimate that the strikers lost at least £120,000 in wages."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 13
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196END OF STRIKE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 13
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