THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13165, 25 January 1936, Page 5

THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

PARTIES IN CONFERENCE.

JOHNSON S IRONICAL REMARKS

United Press Assn.—By Electric T elegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, January 24.

Shipowners met the Australian Council of Trades Unions and the seamen in conference to-day to discuss the strike. The owners offered to allow the men to return to fill vacancies under award conditions. Air Keenan also saw Mr Menzies, but received no undertaking regarding the Transport Workers’ Act. Air Johnson, the deposed secretary, said to-day that the seamen had been misled for the gratification of Mr Keenan. “In anticipation of my defeat,” lie declared, “I am, now preparing to hand over to my successor his tattered and torn army and bankrupt estate. Front the com liiencement of the dispute, I have clone everything to avoid the obvious calamitous results. I have no regrets for my action.”

NO LABOUR TO WORK VESSEL FROM AUSTRALIA.

GABRIELLA MANNED BY NONUNION CREW.

Electric Telegraph—Press Association NEW 7 PLYMOUTH Last Night. Calls for labour to work the cargo in the steamer Gabriella, which arrived at New Plymouth from Brisbane to-day, were unanswered and the vessel lay idle all day. The Gabriel la, is manned by a crew under a license recently granted by the Australian Government.

The Union Company’s office said that neither union nor noat-uiiifon labour was available. Another call would bo made to-morrow.

An official of the AVaersiders’ Union made no statement beyond claiming that all union labour was engaged on ether ships in port. The Gabriella. was scheduled to leave for Wanganui to-morrow. A fierce attack was also made by Air Clarke, the Victorian secretary of the Seamen’s Union, who is also general president, upon Air Keenan. In reporting to the Melbourne Trades Hall Council, Mr Clarke said Mr Keenan’s tactics had brought the*, union to ruination. Air Clarke would not be a fool or a tool for any selseeking opportunist and would nev.?r recognise Air Keenan, who had brought a. state of chaos which had never before existed in any union in Australia.