SEAMEN’S UNION RIFT
SECRETARY CRITICISED RESIGNATION DEMANDED SYDNEY, May 27. Members of the Seamen’s Union, at a mass meeting, passed a resolution of no confidence in the general secretary, Mr. Keenan, who led the recent shipping strike, and called upon him to resign. The resolution expressed the opinion that his presence in Melbourne, where lie tried to reorganise members and prevent the registration of a volunteer .seamen’s union, "was more of a hindrance than an asset to our union. ” The former secretary, Mr. Jacob Johnson, told the meeting that he had definite information- that, without Mr. Keenan, at least 75 per cent of the seamen could look forward to better treatment from the shipowners. Mr. Keenan, who is at present in Melbourne, declared that he intended to ignore the Sydney Union’s decision calling on him to resign, as the meeting was. not a representative one.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19026, 28 May 1936, Page 5
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