STRIKE SETTLED
MARINE ENGINEERS Canberra, Oct. 2 The settlement of the marine engineers' dispute, which threatened to tie up ail Australian coastal shipping, has been announced by Mr. Chifley. The engineers who left their ships have been ordered back immediately, and others whose notices of resignation have not yet taken effect, will withdraw them. Mr. .Justice Kelly, of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, will review the dispute in the steamer Corio, from which the larger dispute sprang and the vessel will then be manned in accordance with his findings. The announcement of the compromise followed long conferences in Melbourne before Mr. Justice Kelly. By midnight last night over 40 of the 140 coastal and inter-State ships involved in the dispute were tied up at various ports.
Mr. Justice Kelly presided at the Melbourne talks as negotiator only, as he had previously decided that because the dispute was not between the employers and the employees the Arbitration Court could not intervene.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 4 October 1947, Page 5
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