SETTLING DOWN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19437, 24 October 1925, Page 7

SETTLING DOWN

SEAMEN’S STRIKE

NO FRESH DEVELOPMENTS

OWNERS’ SCHEME TO FUEL SHIPS.

There are no fresh developments in connection with the seamen’s strike. Work is progressing smoothly. The owners claim to have evolved a scheme for fuelling ships. OUT AGAIN, IN AGAIN STRIKERS RE-SENTEICED By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright. BRISBANE, Oct. 23. A* further batch of British seamen, the majority of whom have already served terms of imprisonment, were sentenced to a further fourteen days' imprisonment for continued wilful disobedience. ALLEGED JOB CONTROL THE WERRIBEE TIED UP. Received Oct. 23, 10.10 p.m. MELBOURN7, Oct. 23. The steamer Werribee is tied up at Geelong. The owners allege that job control has been attempted by the seamen, and they have decided to pay off the crew. The trouble arose through an engineer discharging a fireman. The fireman considered this was unwarranted and the Seamen's Union refused to fill the vacancy. The crew decided not to sail until the man is re-instated. NESTOR’S CREW RETURN INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT. Received Oct. 24, 12.45 a.m. SYDNEY, Oct. 23. The chief item of strike interest today was the arrival by train from Melbourne of fifteen of the sixteen members of the crew of the steamer Nestor i who struck there. They were met at Sydney by a squad of special police and escorted-aboard the Nestor. Wharf labourers are now engaged in discharging the Nestor's cargo. It is now announced that the Diogenes, which was yesterday reported as not calling at Melbourne, will call there.

FUEL FOR STEAMERS OWNERS EVOLVE A SCHEME, • Received Oct. 24, 12.45 a.m. SYDNEY, Oct. 23. It is unofficially announced that the Overseas Shipping Representatives' Association has evolved a scheme for overcoming the Seamen’s Union ukase for preventing the coaling of vessels. ANGRY STRIKERS SHIP’S BEDDING DUMPED INTO RIVER. Received Oct. 23, 10.10 p.m. MELBOURNE, Oct. 23. Incensed by a report that a volunteer crew had been smuggled aboard the steamer Euripides, thirty strikers dump- i ed a lorry load of mattresses for the liner into the Yarra and decamped. The driver of the lorry recovered the bedding in a damaged condition. COMORIN AT SYDNEY MELBOURNE CUT OUT SYDNEY, Oct. 23. The steamer Comorin arrived to-day from London. She came in direct from Adelaide. SENTENCE OF ONE MINUTE

A STRIKER IN COURT . SYDNEY, Oct. 22. J. A. Johnson, chairman of the British seamen’s strike committee, who was a greaser on the*steamer Paroa, was charged with continued neglect of duty and was sentenced till the rising of the Court, and ordered to pay £2 7s 6d. The Court rose a minute later. PLENTY FREE LABOUR MOVEMENT TO END STRIKE MELBOURNE, Oct. 23. Although there has been a good response to the call for volunteer labour to man the ships, no one has signed on. The applicants’ names are being noted for future reference. There is now a pronounced view in union circles that steps should be taken

to terminate the strike, and it is likely that during next week union officials and leaders of the Labour Party will insist on the seamen returning to the ships, independently of the terms which will be offered by the owners. The indications are that the unions will withdraw financial support from the strikers, in which event an early collapse of the strike will be inevitable. HORORATA MEN AGAIN SIX WEEKS’ GAOL IPer' Press Association.} CHRISTCHURCH, Oct.: 23. At Lyttelton this morning six seamen from the Hororata, charged with combining to impede the progress of the ship, were sentenced to six weeks’ gaol-