NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING STRIKE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19364, 22 July 1925, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING STRIKE

ALL WORK SUSPENDED AT 1 DUNEDIN NO SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, July 21. The shipping deadlock continues, all work at Dunedin being suspended with no settlement yet in sight. U.S.S: COY’S ULTIMATUM TROUBLE OVER THE WAIPORI NON-UNIONISTS TO SAIL SHIP (Per Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, July 21. The dispute over manning the stoke- ' hold of the Union Company’s steamer Waipori which has been existing since July 2 reached a deadlock to-day when the. company, replying to two alternative proposals for a settlement advanced by the unionists, issued an ultimatum to the effect that unless the vessel is taken to sea on to-night's tide- by the. original manning the company propose taking steps to man the ship. The firemen, five of whom are in prison for refusing to sail, demanded originally the provision of two trimmers. The assistant Union secretary, Mr Howell, of Wellington, later submitted alternative proposals, either to put two of the ship’s greasers trimming with the addition of a third trimmer or to increase the manning by one trimmer, to be exclusively worked by day trimming sufficient for the night watches.

All the seamen unionists on the Waipori regard the company as throwing down the gauntlet and consequently have resolved that if non-unionists are brougnt to man the vessel they will refuse duty, taking the consequences. Moreover, the firemen’s original demand for two trimmers will now be reinstated.

It is expected the company will bring some of its permanent hands overland to man the Waipori in the course of a couple of days.