SEAMEN DEFIANT.
LATEST MOVE IN STRIKE. SURPRISE IN COURT. (Received 10.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 23. —The seamen have decided to defy the Arbitration Court and suffer deregistration rather than go to the picking'-up places named by Mr Justice Powers. At Melbourne, in the Arbitration Court, Mr Justice Powers heard the seamen s dispute. Mr Walsh gave a definite promise that the members of t'he Union would return to work, pending a conference to determine the matters in dispute. Counsel for the shipowners then surprised the Court by pressing for diregistration, in face of this promise, stating that the undertaking given by Mr Walsh was illusory and the men had no intention of carrying it out. The case was then ordered to stand over till later in the day, when the Judge said he would see that the undertaking was not illusory. When the Court re-assembled Mr Justice Powers reserved final judgment until the seamen had honoured the undertaking to man the ships, ordering the men to start work on >Satur-day.—(P-.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 24 January 1925, Page 5
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170SEAMEN DEFIANT. Wairarapa Age, 24 January 1925, Page 5
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