DEADLOCK IN WIRELESS STRIKE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17771, 15 February 1926, Page 1

DEADLOCK IN WIRELESS STRIKE.

NO EARLY PROSPECT OF A SETTLEMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.. Reuter’s Telegrams.

(Received Februarv 15, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, February 14.

The protracted negotiations between the representatives of the striking wireless operators and the shipowners have ended in a deadlock, with no immediate prospect of a settlement, according to the chairman of the Operators’ Association, who said the employers simply repeated their terms and gave the association seven days to accept, threatening, in the event of a refusal, to offer certain conditions to the men individually.

The failure to agree was confined to questions of wages and the reinstatement of the strikers, the employers insisting that the men should resume at reduced rates and be reinstated only as the employers were able to offer service.

The chairman concluded: “Thirteen hundred ships are now going to .sea without qualified wireless operators. Over nineteen hundred are striking.” (The Wireless Telegraphists’ Association, in a statement, says the operators are prepared to submit the whole dispute to an Industrial ('ourt, but are not prepared to prejudice the case before the Court by accepting a totally unjustified reduction. It points out that the wireless operators accepted reductions in 1922 and 1924. additional to any reductions accepted by other maritime workers.