MARITIME DISPUTE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19333, 20 November 1924, Page 7

MARITIME DISPUTE

THE OVERTIME STRIKE. A DISMAL FAILURE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, November 18. The Waterside Workers' Federation fight against the Shipping Bureau has not prospered. The overtime strike has been lifted so far as the intor-Statc boats are concerned, but not in respect to overseas steamers, which almost exclusively employ bureau labour. The Waterside Workers Federation and the sea transport group of unions are now hard put to it to find a solution of the position they have placed themselves in. FERNDALE TROUBLE SETTLED. MORETON BAY DISPUTE CONTINUES. SYDNEY, November 18. A settlement has been reaelUgd in the Ferndale dispute, and 12 men on the ship who were objected to left the ship unconditionally, thus leaving the way clear for the management to engage a new crew. The trouble on the Moroton Bay continues, the management remaining adamant in its refusal to employ any of the dismissed stewards on any passenger ship; consequently all the Commonwealth Lino steamers arriving in the near future may be laid up by the maritime unions. The two Commonwealth Line steamers Moreton Bay and Ferndale were held up at Sydney on November 4, the former owing to the refusal of the marine stewards to supply the places of those dismissed, and the Ferndale because the waterside workers declined to load her on the ground of the alleged employment of non-union labour on board.