SHIP OWNERS HIT BACK.
PREFERENCE CLAUSE CANCELLED.
ACTION BY COMMISSION
United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copy right. SYDNEY, J anuary 31. Arising out of the recent strike of seamen and firemen on New South Wales coastal vessels, Mr Justice Webb, of the Industrial Commission, to-day, on the application of the ship-owners, cancelled the preference clause in the men’s award. At Melbourne the seamen to-day fell into line with the Sydney seamen and rejected the proposed terms of settlement of the strike.
SEAMEN PUN] SHED. LONDON, January 30. Eight members of the crew of the Fresno Star were sentenced at West Ham Police Court to a week’s imprisonment for disobedience of a lawful command when the ship was at Lyttelton in October. It was stated that part of the crew refused to work on Labour Day in New Zealand, despite the fact that- thc i chief officer said it was not Labour Day for them. The defence was that the men had been warned from the shore that if they worked they would be “putthrough the hoop.’ 7
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13171, 1 February 1936, Page 5
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