SHIPPING DISPUTE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19530, 13 July 1925, Page 7

SHIPPING DISPUTE

TROUBLE IN BRISBANE. TWO VESSELS LAID DP. Pica* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright BRISBANE, July 11. Owing to the action of certain members of the crews of the Mackarra and the Wyandra in leaving ships at Brisbane, it was decided by the owners to lay both the vessels up. KARAMU HELD UP. FIREMEN’S DEMANDS REFUSED. HOBART, July 11. The Union Company’s steamer Karamu is held up in Hobart owing to the refusal of the firemen who are required to fill two vacancies in the vessel's complement to accept employment without a month’s wages in advance and the guarantee of a passage home. COMPENSATION FOR LOSSES. SEAMEN’S UNION GETS £SOO. SYDNEY, July 11. It is authoritatively stated in Labour circles that the Federated Seamen’s Union received £SOO as compensation for the losses sustained by the original crew of the Commonwealth Line’s chartered steamer Volumnia. The source of the payment is unknown. It is only after the compensation claim was met tliat the union allowed its members to man the Commonwealth vessels. FOUR MORE STEAMERS IDLE. SYDNEY, July 12. (Received July 12, at 11.1 p.m.) The latest move in the shipping troubles is the tying up of the Howard Smith steamer Kanowna. The crew lias been paid off. Three of the Adelaide Company s steamers —the Baxunga, the Baldina, and the Dundala—have been placed on the idle list. The company decided not to put Uicm into commission after overhaul owing to the uncertainty of the position.