STRIKE SETTLED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22659, 26 August 1935, Page 9

STRIKE SETTLED

OWNERS’ TERMS ACCEPTED ALL SHIPS TO BE MANNED (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, August 24. The seamen’s meeting this morning decided to accept the ship owners’ terms All vessels are to be manned. Tbe Wanganella will sail to-night. THE ESTIMATED LOSSES SYDNEY, ’August 25. (Received August 25, at 9 p.m.) It is estimated that the owners’ losses in the shipping strike totalled £30,000, while the seamen’s loss in wages amounts to several thousands. Full activity has been restored on the waterfront. THE DECISION CHEERED AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY SYDNEY, August 25. (Received August 25, at 10 p.m.) Fifteen hundred men attended yesterday’s mass meeting of seamen, an overwhelming majority decision to accept the owners’ terms, being received with cheers. The terms offered were that, subject to the union and its members declaring the strike off and offering for all ships in terms of the existing “agree ment between the ship owners and the union, all owners would instruct the picking-up officers to select suitable men for the immediate manning of ships, whether they had very good, good, or indifferent discharges arising out of the present trouble and that they would be selected without discrimination.

The Acting Federal Attorney-general (Mr Brennan), in a message from Melbourne, said the Government was gratified that the scrike was over. There was a minority of Communists among the seamen and proof existed that they had boon very active on this occasion. “No doubt we owe a great deal to the wives of the seamen, whose influence was almost certainly on the side of common sense.”

The Wanganella and the Ngakuta sailed for Wellington last night.