AGREEMENT ACCEPTED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 242, 13 May 1933, Page 5

AGREEMENT ACCEPTED

; DECISION OF UNIONS' Shipping Strike Over VESSELS BEING MANNED Pr • Association. —Copyright. Wellington, May 10. \ News that Seamen's Unions at Lyt- ! telton and Dunedin had accepted the j new agreement was received by midi day to-day, but it was not until 2 p.m. that news was received that the men at Auckland had accepted the shipowners' terms and that the hold-up had deiinitejy ended. As soon as this news had been j given out to the shipping companies a I definite start whs made to man most of ! the vessels laid up at Wellington. It • was then that the significance of a i clause in the new agreement whereby ' the shipowners agreed to sign on on I each ship the crew which had been paid ! oil' during the dispute became apparent. I It was found in a number of cases at I Wellington, also at other ports, that soma ' of the memh ■ «>f the crews of the vari- ' ous ships had left the port at which they 1 had bscn paid under the agreement. The j owners could not replace these men, j even temporarily, by others without the : permission of the union officials, and it i :s understood that in each case the offi- • ciajs refused to give that permission. : Taus a number or ships which would | nave left Wellington and other ports toi day will not be able to sail before toI moirow at the earliest.

The Union Company paid off the Tamahinc s volunteer crew yesterday and signed on her oid union crew. The vessel s departure tor Pictoa had been postponed until U.oO p.m. yesterday to enable this io he done. Alter her union crew had been signed on u is understood they refused to man me vessel until she had been thoroughly fumigated and their quarters cleaned, the reason being that Uiey could not live in quarters recently used by "scab'' labour until all traces of them haa been obliterated by a thorough fumigation. Ihe Union tympany Had no option but to do this, and the Xamahme's Departure was then postponed until 1 p.m. to-morrow. Pending aetmite official news that the hoid-up tiad ended tire shipping companies tins morning nominateu waterside laoaur ror worK during the afternoon, in the afternoon, nowever, a number ui watersiders decided that the ships eoui'l wait anotner day, and they left tne wharf, 'ifus left some of the companies snort of labour, but they managed to h.tna:e must or tiie cargo offering. Tne r.ionowai will remain at Wellington unut next TnurscUy. 'Hie Kaitoa will remain until Monday, when she will resume her ruiming in tne weison ferry service in conjunction with the iviatangi, vViiicn is due nere to-morrow mornuig from Nelscn in place of the Arahura, Wflich was paid on and laid up at Nelson to-day. Six ships which had been laid up at Weiiingcon, tne nolmgien, Kapiti, Holmdale, rvapuin, Fort wrungarei and Inaha, were sueeessiul in their crews, and leu port to-day. Mr. waisli, presiuent of the Federated Seamen's Union, announces that tha striKe is at an end. Tne terms of settlement lor the new agreement wese submitted to members of tne beamen's Union at all ports, and by a large majority members accepted tne agreement arrived at by representatives of the seamen and smpowners. Tne strike is there-* fore off.