MARITIME TROUBLE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16605, 8 December 1924, Page 5

MARITIME TROUBLE.

ATTEMPT TO CUT VESSELS ADRIFT.

REVOLVER SHOT FIRED,

Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn ./ PERTH, Dec. 7.

In the early hours of Saturday morning an attempt was made at Fremantle to set the .siearners Clan Mno.Nair and Port Bowen adrift. The rope hawsers mooring them to the wharf were cut, but the vessels were kept at the wharf by the steel hawsers.

The men responsible for the outrage wer© surprised in the middle of their work, and, after a revolver shot had been fired, presumably from one of the ships, the miscreants escaped. All the vessels tied up at the wharf are now substituting steel for rope hawsers.

DECISION OF COURT

MEN MAY REFUSE TERMS,

JUDGE’S INTIMATION,

MELBOURNE, Dec. 6

In the Arbitration Court, Mr Justice Powers gave his decision in the shipping dispute. He said lie had no legal authority to abolish the Shipping Labor Bureau in Sydney, but made an order preventing shipowners from insisting on men registering at the) bureau as a condition upon which preference would be granted.

MELBOURNE, Dec. 7.

Mr Justice Powers, in Ills judgment on the shipping strike, said that he made the order preventing omvers insisting on the men registering at the bureau contingent upon the men returning to work, and threatened that, if the union disobeyed his award, he would consider favorably an application from the shipowners for the de-registration of the union. The men’s representative said the union would not accept the new terms.

SYDNEY, Dec. 6

The Moreton Bay sailed without further trouble after being delayed since November 3.