NO SETTLEMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 July 1925, Page 11

NO SETTLEMENT.

THE SHIPPING DISPUTE. POSITION IN AUSTRALIA. , -q .T,- ’. ‘ll UNIONISTS STAND FIRM. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received July 3, 10.30 p.m. Sydney, July 3. The Premier (Mr. J. T. Lang) is making desperate efforts to reopen negotiations with the Federal Premier (Mr. S. M. Bruce) with a view to settling the shipping dispute, but there does not seem much promise of his intervention bearing the fruit of industrial peace. A meeting of the marine transport group and the employees of the Morts Dock decided not to work the i Hunter, the employees at the dock stating that they had no dispute with the dock management but, being unionists, they would stand by the working class and say that, until union labour was employed on the Hunter, they would not work the steamer. The dock, according to the management’s ultimatum, will close on Monday, rendering idle 1500 men. Fifteen members of the crew of the Huddurt Parker steamer Zealandia handed in their notices. No reason was given. The Federal representatives of the unions interested in the shipping dispute will meet on Monday, when their attitude towards the trouble will be declared. At this meeting the gas and electric lighting employees will also announce their decision. DISPUTE MUST .SPREAD. EVERY STATE WILL BE EMBROILED. ■Received July 4, 1.10 a.m. Sydney, July 3. It is. gathered that the meeting at Morts Dock had no vital bearing upon the main issue of the shipping dispute, and that the meeting was attended by a number of men not employed at the dock, and that the marine transport group, which called the. meeting, had no authority to call the men off the job. No officials from the unions concerned addressed the meeting, which did not represent the Morts Dock employees. When the bell for the resumption Of work most of the'employees resumed. With reference to the steps Mr. Lang might take ,to settle the whole shipping trouble, it is generally agreed in union circles that no single State Premier can do anything because the deadlock already touches three States and the remaining three must become embroiled at an early date. It is understood that the shipowners intend to discard the defunct- award immediately, not awaiting the expiration of articles.