SEAMEN’S DISPUTE
NO APPEARANCE OF PARTIES.
MATTER REFERRED TO COURT. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, October 30. The Conciliation Council proceedings in the seamens’ dispute which were fixed for to-day lapsed through tlio non-attendance of tho assessors, there being no appearance of representatives of either side Tho Canterbury Steam Shipping Company, acting for some 30 shipping mid trading concerns in tho .Dominion cited the New Zealand Federated Seamens’ Union, and the Auckland and Dunedin Federations, and the dispute was set down for hearing to-dav. An earlier sitting was, however, held m Wellington, and at that sitting a resolution was passed dispensing with the sit-tangs in Canterbury and Otago, and treating the Wellington sitting as on a Dominion basis. The whole dispute was referred hv that sitting to the Arbitration Court.
To-day owing to the non-attendance of tho assessors from cither side, the conciliation commissioner. Mr W Huggar, formally referred the matter to the Arbitration Court.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11664, 31 October 1923, Page 6
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