COOKS' VENDETTA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 14 April 1928, Page 5

COOKS' VENDETTA

HOLD-UP OF SHIPPING TROUBLE MAY EXTEND (Received April 14, noon). MELBOURNE, April 14. When the Australian United Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer Mareeba was due to sail for Melbourne it was found that nine firemen were missing. Efforts to fill the vacancies were unavailing, and the remainder of the crew were paid off, and the vessel tied up. The chairman of directors of the Huddart, Parker Co, states that tho matter of the cooks' vendetta against the company will probably be ventilated before the Arbitration Court. A representative of the shipowners, referring to the trouble, said the cause was unemployment on the waterfront. The Cooks' Union, had. many members out of employment, and it was s in an endeavor to reduce the idleness that the union suddenly demanded an increase in tlie galley staff. ~ It is rumored that the union would, if necessary, adopt a more militant attitude, and threaten to hold'up all colliers should the owners not comply with its demands for an additional cook for each vessel. < The secretary of"the Marine Cooks' Union denies that the union refused to supply cooks for the Werribee.' He said he did not know why the men would not respond to the „ea 11..... He added that there-was no connection between the trouble in Sydney and the Werribec. . '-'-■