MORE DISPUTES

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12093, 21 March 1925, Page 5

MORE DISPUTES

ON SYDNEY WATERFRONT DEREGISTRATION OF SEAMEN’S UNION MAY BE SOUGHT. WATERSIDERS RESTIVE. £iy Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. SYDNEY, March 20. It is stated in shipping circles that the action of toe Seamen’s Union in withdrawing men from the Eromanga is a violation of the undertaking given in the Arbitration Court recently, and that another suit may be instituted by the Commonwealth Line to secure toe union’s deregistration * If the action of the union prevents the docking of the Volumnia in Sydney she will probably go to Java and cancel her West Australian wheat contract. ■’ In another direotion trouble is threatened on the wharves) by the Watersiders’ Federation, which is proposing that its men shall not work on the ships after 9 o’clock at night unless for the purpose of securing the immediate dispatch of a .vessel by continuous working. A conference is to be held to discuss the matter, -but the shipowners fear that this is the beginning of a long series of claims which will continually imperil peace on the wharves. « The secretary of toe Returned Soldiers’ Watersiders’ Union reports that the strength of his union is increasing daily. The union has decided to combat the tactics of the trolly and draymen bv forming a land transport union, which will he able to undertake the conveyance of goods during the present trouble.