STRIKE SETTLED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 199, 26 August 1935, Page 7

STRIKE SETTLED

SEAMEN S DECISION OWNERS’ TERMS ACCEPTED NO DISCRIMINATION GOVERNMENT SATISFACTION (By Telegraph —Pre;-s Association —Copyright) Received Aug. 25, 6.30 p-m. bi’DNEY, Aug. 25. Fifteen hundred attended yesterday’s mass meeting of seamen, an overwhelming majority decision to accept the owners' terms being received with cheers. The terms offered were that, subject to the union and its members declaring the strike off and offering for all ships in the terms of the existing a/greement between the shipowners and the union, all the owners would instruct the picking-up officers io select suitable men for the immediate manning of the ships, whether they had very good or indifferent dis'charges arising out of the present trouble, and that they be selected without discrimination. The acting-Fedcral Attorney-General (Mr Brennan) in a message from Melbourne, said that the Government was gratified that the strike was over. He said that there was a minority of Communists among the seamen, and proof existed that they had been very active on this occasion. “No doubt we owe a gieat deal to the wives of the seamen. whose influence was almost certainly on the side of common sense,” he added. The Wanganella and the Ngakuta sailed for Wellington last night. A COSTLY HOLD-UP OWNERS AND SEAMEN LOSE Received Aug. 25, 7.5 p.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 25. It is estimated that the owners’ io: >. s in the shipping strike totalled. £30,000, while the, seamen’s loss in wages amount to several thousands. Full activity has been restored on the waterfront. VOLUNTEER CREWS ONE STEAMER SAILS. SYDNEY, Aug. 24. The James Patrick sfeamer Carlisle, manned by a volunteer crew, sailed late last night for Melbourne, and two other vessels are expected to sail today with volunteer crews.