AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19500, 8 June 1925, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN

deregistration or' union. JUDGE CRITICISES LEADER’S METHODS. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, MELBOURNE, June 6. The Federal Arbitration Court, following upon the refusal of Mr Tom Walsh (secretary of the Seamen’s Union) to give an undertaking that the seamen would man the steamers Eromanga and Dilga, deregistered the union and cancelled its awards. At the commencement of the hearing of the case, which was an application by the steamship owners for the deregistration of the union, Mr Walsh intimated that the Minion would not oppose deregistration. In delivering judgment in the Seamen’s Union case, the Deputy-president (Mr Justice Webb) said that it was with the deepest regret that he made the deregistration orders. A fine body of Aus-. tralian seamen, through the officers of their union, were being deprived of their status, and the protection and awards of the court. The conditions under which the Australian seamen worked were the best to be found in the world. They had been obtained by constitutional methods, and not-by the means advocated by Messrs Welsh and Johnson. Those methods had always signally failed in Australia. If the seamen chose to fallow tho foreign ideas of these men they must take the consequences. COMMONWEALTH LINE. CREWS SOUGHT FOE IDtE SHIPS. SYDNEY, June 7. (Received June 7, at 5.5 p.m.)^ Following the deregistration of the Seamen’s Union the management of the Commonwealth Line has decided to call for crews to man the steamers Eromanga and Dilga. If unionists do not respond an effort will be made to secure non-union labour.