“NO SEAMEN’S STRIKE”
ATTITUDE OP OWNERS AMPLE LABOR OFFERING DISPUTE AT MELBOURNE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Jan. 21, noon.) SYDNEY, Jan. 21. Prominent shipowners said: “So far as the shipping companies are concerned, there is no seamen’s strike in force at present. All ships laid up in South Australia, Victoria, and Queensland have been manned, and the vessels still idle in Sydney are being manned as required. There is no dearth of men.” The seamen at Melbourne decided not to recognise Mr. Johnson as the secretary of the Federal Union.
When Mr Johnson and Mr Casey, the Queensland secretary, attempted t-o enter the Trades Hall to-day to attend the conference called by the A.U.T.U. they encountered a large picket of seamen, who jeered and abused them and forcibly prevented them entering the building.
The conference decided that neither Mr Keenan nor Mr Johnson be recognised as general secretary until the general president (Mr Clarke) gave a ruling. It also decided not to admit Mr Johnson to a further conference of the unions.
Mr Clarke, who did not attend the conference, said that Mr Keenan was not elected according to the rules.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18918, 21 January 1936, Page 5
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