“GET RID OF WALSH”
MR BRUCE’S STRAIGHT TIP PLAIN SPEAKING TO SEAMEN A HUGE UPHEAVAL THE ALTERNATIVE By Telegraph—Per Press A sm.-Copyright. Received June 30, 11.45 p.m. MELBOURNE, June 30. A deputation representing the industrial organisations concerned in the shipping dispute waited on Air Bruce with the view to arriving at a settlement through the medium of the Prime Minister’s interference. The deputation submitted a scheme providing for round table conferences to settle any future shipping disputes. Failing a settlement Jieing arrived at at these, a State Dispute Committee be called to settle the trouble. If this failed, and the dispute threatened to involve other unions of an inter-State character, a Commonwealth Disputes Committee Committee would then make an effort to settle the trouble.
Air Bruce, in reply, said he agreed that a considerable amount had been done by the Disputes Committee to avoid industrial upheaval, but the present trouble had arisen because the seamen deliberately forced it upon themselves, their attitude being that they did not want the ordinary arbitration machinery of Australia to apply to them. He added that if Air Walsh continued his present attitude Australia was going to experience tremendous industrial unrest and the whole shipping industry would be held up again, It appeared to him that the time had come for trade unionism generally to repudiate Air Walsh and his doctrines. He (Mr Bruce) would not interfere and advised the seamen that if they had a method of settling the trouble to submit it to the Commonwealth Line management. UNION’S ULTIMATUM FORTNIGHT’S NOTICE. Received Julv 1. 1.45 a.m. SYDNEY 7 , June 30. A stop-work meeting of the Seamen’s Union decided that unless the guarantee clause demand were conceded, as each vessel arrives at its home port in the Commonwealth the men will give fourteen days’ notice to cease work from July 4. This will apply to all owners not conceding the men’s demands. It is understood that only two Lines have so far granted the men’s demands —the Burns Philp and the Patrick Steamship Companies. This is the most serious move on the men’s part so far as it threatens to hang up the whole local shipping.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19348, 1 July 1925, Page 5
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