SHIPPING STRIKE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 61, 23 May 1928, Page 5

SHIPPING STRIKE

.. ANOTHER APPEAL. COOKS WANT CONFERENCE. OWNERS STATE TERMS. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph CopyrigL t. (Received 9.2.> a.m.') MELBOURNE, Ti.i.. Day. The Shipowners' Association hjia received ai telegram from MY Tudeliope, secretary of tlie Cooks' Union, requesting a- conference to discuss, a settlement, and declaring that the Trades Union Council has no authority to act on the cooks' behalf. The Shipowners' Secretary, Mr llford, replied; "We will meet your representatives with or without representatives of other bodies to discuss terms of settlement. We have already informed you on two occasions the terms on which we ore ready to engage your members. These take nothing away from you to which you were previously entitled 1 , but after the ships of all members of my organisation are fully manned, if (here is ainy difficulty in regard to details, we. are prepared to give consideration to anv suggestion you may make."

A meeting of the combined committee of Maritime Unions and tiio Trades Union Council passed l a resolution to resist to the utmost attempt by the employers to engage non-union labour for the ships and also to resist the abolition of the roster system which for years has been a condition of employment as well a« a clause of the Cook's' Union rules. Before the owners get their way in this matter, the resolution says the Arbitration Court should be consulted.—Australian Press Association.

ANOTHER SHIP TIED UP. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. (Received 10.5 &.ni.j 5 SYDNEY, This Day. Another inter-stat© vessel, the Din> boola is to be laid up by the owners a« a, result of the cooks' strike. The crew will bo given 24 hours' notice on N her arrival from West Australia-