SHIPPING DISPUTES.
CONFERENCE IN MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, Feb. 25. The Trades Hall .Disputes Committee and the Maritime Unions have arranged a conference with the management of the Commonwealth Line in Sydney to discuss the settlement of the chartered ships dispute. THREATS BY SEAMEN. OPPOSITION TO SALE. (Received Feb. 26, noon.) SYDNEY, Feb. 26. Serious threats are being made among maritime unions in Sydney of tactics which AA’ill be put into force to prevent the sale of the Australian Commonwealth line of steamers. Jacob Johansen, assistant secretary of the Sydney branch of the Federated Seamen’s Union, stated that according to rumors there is a movement on foot whereby if an attempt is made to sell tlie ships the whole lot of them Avill be declared black. It wjll then be impossible for any neAv owners to trade with them in future on the Australian coast. SCARCITY OF LABOR FOR MEAT LOADING. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. There was no response at Lyttelton this morning to the call for labor for loading meat on the Port Auckland, but avool loading in proceeding..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16671, 26 February 1925, Page 5
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