ASKED TO RESIGN.
AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN’S SECRETARY. SEQUEL TO RECENT STRIKE. MOTION OF NO-CONFIDENCE PASSED. (Received Wednesday, 19.16 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 27. Members of the Seamen's Union, at a mass meeting, passed a resolution of no confidence in the General Secretary, Mr. J. Keenan, who led the recent shipping strike, and called up-on him to resign. The resolution expressed the opinion that his presence in Melbourne, where he tried to reorganise members and prevent the registration of the Volunteer Seamen’s Union, “was more of a hindrance than an asset to our union.” The former General Secretary, Mr. Jacob Johnson told the meeting he had definite information that without Mr. Keenan at least 75 per cent, of the seamen could look forward to better treatment from the shipowners. MR. KEENAN’S ATTITUDE. INTENDS TO IGNORE SYDNEY DECISION. (Received This Day, 1 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 27. Mr. J. Keenan, who is at present in Melbourne, declared that he intended to ignore the Sydney Union’s decision calling pn him to resign, as the meeting was not a representative one.
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Wairarapa Age, 28 May 1936, Page 5
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