SHIPPING DISPUTE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19529, 11 July 1925, Page 12

SHIPPING DISPUTE

ATTITUDE OB' OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION. % ■ NON-PARTICIPATION IN AGREEMENT. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, July 9. Tho Owners’ Association refused to hold a conference with the union delegation from Sydney, but allowed them to put their case before the owners. Certain proposals were made by the unionists, and the owners then announced that they would consider the proposals, but would adhere to their previous decision, and would not participate in the agreement entered into by the Commonwealth Line and the marine transport group. DELEGATION RETURNS. NEGOTIATIONS NOT BROKEN OFF. SYDNEY, July 10. (Received July 10, at 11 p.m.) Tho seamen and shipowners in Sydney are not moving, awaiting the final outcome of the union delegation’s visit to Melbourne. The Melbourne conference has been adjourned to a datp to be fixed and the union officials have returned to Sydney. Negotiations, however, have not been broken off. COMMONWEALTH LINE. CREWS READILY OBTAINED. SYDNEY, July 9. Crows for tho Eromanga and the Dilga, of the Commonwealth Line, -were signed on without difficulty. The vessels will sail shortly. No further trouble is expected with this line. There has been’ no change in the dispute between the seamen and the inter-State companies. MORT’S DOCK DISPUTE. COMMISSION TO INQUIRE. SYDNEY, July 10. Although the unions whose members are employed at Mort’s Dock have removed the “black” embargo from the steamer Hunter, the dispute is not settled between the union and the Newcastle and Hunter River Company. The present attitude of the Waterside Workers’ Federation and the Seamen’s Union is that all the vessels of the company remain “black” until the Permanent and Cashal Waterside Workers’ Union is abolished. It is learned that the Government proposes to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the circumstances of this longstanding dispute, and that it will base its legislation on the result of the inquiry. The steamer Iron Crown is Laid up at Newcastle, having been unable to get a crew, owing to the owners refusal to insert a guarantee clause in the articles. THE DOCK REOPENED. SYDNEY, July 10. (Received July 10, at 11 p.m.) Mort’s dock has been reopened. All tho dismissed employees were re-engaged. MOERAKI SLIGHTLY DELAYED. SYDNEY, July 10. ' (Received July 10, at 11 p.m.) Tho Mooraki was due to soil at 10 this morning, but was delayed the absence ’of six firemen. Later the' men were taken to the vessel in the stream and she sailed at 11.30,