RECENT SEAMEN’S STRIKE
SECRETARY’S POSITION 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 calleci upon him to sip/The resolution expressed the opinion that his presence at 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 that he had definite information that without Mr. Keenan at least 75 per cent, of seamen could look forward to better treatment from, shipowners, MR. KEENAN’S DECISION NO NOTICE OF RESOLUTION MELBOURNE, May 27. Air. Keenan, who is at present in Melbourne, declared that he intended to ignore the Sydney Union’s decision : calling on him to resign as the meeting was not a representative one.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 126, 29 May 1936, Page 7
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