SHIPPING HOLD-UP

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20284, 6 December 1935, Page 11

SHIPPING HOLD-UP

STUBBORN ATTITUDE OF MEN . PARALYSIS SPREADS TO INDUSTRIES United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 5, 10.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 5. There were no major developments in the shipping strike at Sydney today. All inter-State vessels are idle and everybody is awaiting the outcome of to-morrow’s meeting of seamen. The opinion was freely expressed along the waterfront to-day that the men would refuse to work under the new award. The Disputes Committee of the Australian Council of Trades Unions, at a meeting in Melbourne to-day recommended that the seamen should return to work pending an application for variation of the award. Officials of the Seamen’s Union at Sydney and Melbourne have telegraphed to all branches, advising the men to return to work and emphasising the futility of defying the Government’s ultimatum. Thet Orient liner Oronsay sailed for London to-day with 300 inter-State pasengers. It is expected that the Niagara will be able to sail to-morrow. There is at present no suggestion that the Monowai, which is due to sail for Wellington to-morrow, will be drawn into the dispute. PARALYSIS EXTENDING INDUSTRIAL LIFE SERIOUSLY AFFECTED United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 5, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 5. The shipping strike has already affected the northern coalfields. Three mines in the Cessnock district are now idle, and unless the hold-up is speedily ended, about ten thousand miners , will be thrown out of work. A message from Adelaide says that the manager of a big motor works has, announced that because of the shipping strike, the firm has been forced to ease up on production and to ration the staff. One thousand men will be put off to-day, and should the dispute continue, 4500 men will be affected. Advices from Launceston state that to maintain the Tasmanian lines, the Government made an offer to the Seamen’s Union in Melbourne to pay the difference in wages represented by the new and old awards if the seamen manned two vessels and maintained the Bass Strait services. As a result of the attitude adopted by the New Zealand wharf labourers, who previously refused to handle the Niagara’s cargo, the Union Company is not accepting freight for discharge at Auckland.