Another Ship Laid Up By Owners, 7 Making Total of Fourteen.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18465, 17 May 1928, Page 9

Another Ship Laid Up By Owners, 7 Making Total of Fourteen.

HOPE TO SECURE VICTORY OVER COOKS WITHOUT EMPLOYING VOLUNTEER LABOUR. (United Prcr.s Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—C ipyright.) (Received May 17, 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 17. SHIPOWNERS, forcing the climax, have now decided to lay up the Australian United Steamship Company’s large passenger vessel Orungai, which reaches Sydney to-day from Queensland ports, with a crew of 130 and many passengers, who will be compelled to complete the journey to Melbourne by rail. Fourteen steamers are now idle. The employers are receiving numerous applications for volunteer labour, but are reluctant to take volunteers if they can gain a victory in any other way, as it would involve an immediate stoppage of the entire industry and also other industries. — Australian Press Association.

COOKS WILL FIGHT ON, SAYS LEADER. SEAMEN TO CONSIDER SUPPORTING STRIKERS. (United Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received May 17, 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 17. The following motion by Mr Jacob

Johnson, General President of the Seamen’s Union, will be considered at today’s conference of watersiders: “That this conference supports the cooks until a settlement ife reached on the basis of the conditions existing at the time of the Ulimaroa’s dispute, or, failing that, on the conditions existing prior to the dispute.” Mr Tudehope, Federal Secretary of the Marine Cooks’ Union, declared: “The cooks will fight on.” —Australian Press Association.