HOLDING UP SHIPS
WORSE THAN SUSHRANGINC OPINION OF DEPUTY-PRESIDENT OF .ARBITRATION COURT. DISGRACE TO CIVILISATION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received March 24, 1.20 n.m.) MELBOURNE, March 23. During the hearing of an application in the Arbitration Court by the Dockers’ and Ship Painters’ Union for a r.ew award, the Deputy-President of the Court, Sir Johu Quick, referring to a telegram from Sydney which stated that the donkeymen and riggers had ceased work on the Eromanga because the Seamen’s Union had declared the vessel black, said he considered the Volumniacase a disgrace to civilisation. Unfortunately the court bad no jurisdiction over a foreign crew on a foreign ship. • The Union’s representative stated that he had instructed the Sidney branch to resume work, and members of the Union were now back at work on the Eromanga. Sir John Quick added that Parliament had power under the Commonwealth constitution to pass laws protecting ships aud traders to Australia from outrages that were worse than bush ranging
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12095, 24 March 1925, Page 6
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