SHIPPING STRIKE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16870, 27 October 1925, Page 14

SHIPPING STRIKE.

COAL FOR refrigerators; UNION OFFERS TO PROVIDE LABOR. lElec. Tel. Copy right- -United Press Assu.i (Received October 27, 2 p.m.) BRISBANE, Oct. 27. The Transport Unions’ Strike Committed informed the, owners through the Premier it is willing to allow union labor to supply coal to keen the refrigerators working in all the ships.

The committee stated it did not want to make the oversea shipping strike a basis for a general strike, and made their offer in the hope that the r-hin-owners and farmers would recognise that the oversea seamen, while detarmined to enforce their demands, were rot going to be drawn into a general strike. It is understood the offer is conditional oil the owners agreeing not to institute further prosecutions against the strikers.

The owners’ representatives cabled London for instructions. Meantime th« farmers deferred loading coal into the Alabin and Gladstone., until Wednesday night. The Premier in a statement, after an; interview with the strikers’ committee. said lie emphasised that coal must ho supplied for the refrigerators. a.ml suggested that if an arrangerncint could be made it would not affect the ultimate result of the strike, and if the owners took legitimate, steps to supplycoal tho Government would be compelled to give them police protection.’

LOYAL CREWS. REFUSE TO JOIN THE STRIKERS. REVIVAL OF JOB CONTROL. (Received October 27, 2 p.m.) AIELBOURNE, Oct, 27. The crews of the Berrima, Sophocles, Diogncs, and Oronsay still refuse to join the strikers, despite the lattcir’s daily efforts to embroil them in the dispute. The owners state the holding up of the Ulimaroa, Karoola, and Wcmbce is proof that the agreement made in August with the Seamen’s Union, vhich was stated to be the end of job control, is beginning to share the fate of previous agreements and undertakings entered into by the Seamen’s Union, and that job control is again being exercised.