UNIONS AT WAR

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12024, 30 December 1924, Page 6

UNIONS AT WAR

AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING STRIKE. . UNREASONABLE OFFICIALS By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. SYDNEY, December LG. Unless the Government intervenes immediately to remove the shipping deadlock, drastic action is -- proposed within union circles to bring the Seamen’s Union to a reasonable frame of mind. As the first step, it is proposed to ask the Seamen’s Union to change its delegates in the transport group. The present officers, it is stated, are factious, intolerant, and unreasonable. On account of the secretiveness of other units the transport group is almost in ignorance of the seamen’s [dans. If tho Labour Council refuses to in. terrene, it is stated, - mass meetings of the members of other unions will be held to devise ways and means of forcing demand. The direct result on the strike position is tHe breaking of the united front which the officials are calling upon the unions to present. SEAMEN V. WATERBIDERS WINCHMEN REFUSE STEAM. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received December 29,. 9.55 p.m.) PERTH, December 29. In consequence of the wharf lumpers’ decision to lift the embargo on the Clan Monroe, the Seamen’s Union, although without jurisdiction over the Clan Monroe, which has a black crew, retaliated in another direction, by issuing orders to the winchmen on the steamers Karoola, Woolgar, and Barnbra, all of whom are members of the Seamen’s Union, not to supply steam to the. lumpers. The work on these vessels was thus brought to a standstill. All other in tor-state vessels also will be help up their arrival. Tho watersiders decided to li t . embargo on the Clan Monroe, suhjcn to certain conditions. If these conditions are not observed, the embargo will be re-imposed.