STEWARDS' STRIKE.
A SERIOUS SITUATION, By Telegrat'li—Frees Association—CopTrie-bt Australian and N.Z Cable Association SYDNEY, January 18. Commenting on 'the strike Situation, the union leader* say that they never "wore more in earnest- They nr edict a repetition of the 1890 strike on the waterfront, where distress is appalling, o> for months prior to the stewards' strike there was an absence of work owing to other disputes. Practically every worker in the State is directly or indirectly affected. Tim Tofun. which is due. on Wednesday, will ho dispatched to N«?r Zealand with some hundred stranded Neu Zealanders and immigrants. ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT SHIPOWNERS AND SEAMEN. MELBOURNE. January IS. Tfc is unofficially stated that the shipowners have written to the Seamen's Union. Sydney, asking for a certain undertaking with regard to the job control policy adopted by the union since the 1919 dispute. iTls understood that they have asked for some guarantee with regard to future actions and demands by tire, seamen. Tin's changes the whole venue of the Strike. Even if the stewards effect a settlement, it L unlikely that the. ships vrfU he manned unless an agreement ’? reached between the seamen and tin* owners.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16329, 19 January 1921, Page 4
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