MARITIME HOLD-UP

Wairarapa Age, 7 June 1928, Page 5

MARITIME HOLD-UP

COOKS EXTENDING STRIKE TO ALL SHIPS. EIGHTY VESSELS EXPECTED TO BE IDLE. TASMANIAN SHIP LAID UP. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received Wednesday, 8 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 6. The steamer Kamo, on the Tasmanian service, is the latest to be involved in the cooks’ strike. The cooks on board gave twenty-four hours’ notice. It is anticipated that there will be eighty ships idle within the next seven days, when the cooks at all ports give notice. The shipowners are now seriously considering engaging volunteer cooks, but in view of the certainty that if this is done the strike will be extended to all other transport unions, they hesitate to take e)rtreme action.—(P.A.) GIVING NOTICE. ATTEMPT TO FORCE ISSUE. MELBOURNE, June 6. Instructions have been received by the officials of the Victorian Cooks’ Union that cooks on all vessels controlled by the Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association should terminate their engagements, giving twenty-four hours’ notice. This has accordingly been done, and cargo vessels now involved are the Murada, Weir, Burwah, Time, Kooliga, and the collier Ashridge. Although the Tasmanian passenger service is not yet affected, it is believed that by the end of the week the cooks will be directed to give notice on both the vessels now running, tho Loongana and Oonah.—(P.A.)

ACTION AT ADELAIDE. ADELAIDE, June 6. Cooks on the coast steamships have given twenty-four hours’ notice. Tho Koopoola, Wandana, Warrawee, an<f Kooraka were immediately tied up, while the Paringa, Quorna and Karaite are expected to be involved to-morrow. -(P.A.) SEAMEN WANT WORK. A THOUSAND VOLUNTEERS. SYDNEY, June 6. A thousand seafarers sought employment at the Shipping Office at Sydney yesterday, the majority expecting the shipowners to appeal for volunteer labour. The names and addresses of most were taken.—(P.A.)