AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN
REGISTRATION REFUSED. SYDNEY, July 1. The Industrial Registrar refused the application of the Coastal Seamen’s and Firemen’s Union and the New South Wales branch of the Seamen’s Union of Australia for registration as industrial unions under the Arbitration Act. The registration of the Coastal Union was opposed by the Seamen’s Union, and the other application was opposed by the Coastal Union, the Coastal Owners’ Association, and the Inter-State Steamship Owners's Association. In refusing the Coastal Union’s application the registrar said that the evidence had established that there was control over the union by tho employers. Thus the union was not genuinely representative of the employees. After considering the conduct of the Seamen’s Union since 1924 the registrar said that he felt that tho union aid not desire to regulate the conditions of employment by the means provided in the Industrial Arbitration Act, and would not do so if registered as a bona fide industrial union.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 30
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157AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 30
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