INDUSTRIAL UNREST.
COTTON CRISIS. NEGOTIATIONS BLOCKED. Vress Association- Electric Teleurapli-Copyrigt. LONDON, Tuesday. Hopes of negotiations being resumed in the cotton crisis evaporated when the operative spinners at a delegate meeting rejected a recommendation empowering the executive to obtain the best terms possible. —A. and N.Z. P.A. A STRIKE THREAT. SYDNEY’, Tuesday. Mr 11. Brennan, general secretary of the Seamen’s Union, commenting on the action of Mr O’Neill, secretary of the Victorian branch, declared that Mr O’NcilL had no authority to threaten trouble. His conduct would be reviewed at a special meeting of the Seamen’s Union to-morfow.—A. and N.Z. P.A.
(The Victorian branch of the Seamen’s Union decided that members should refuse to sail with members of the Australian Seamen’s Union, and the secretary of the branch, Mr O’Neill, stated that those men who subscribed their names to the rival association for registration would lose employment, and, if the owners insisted upon employing them, the vessels would be held up.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 August 1929, Page 5
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