SHIPPING TROUBLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 January 1932, Page 5

SHIPPING TROUBLE

FIRM ATTITUDE OF FEDERAL CABINET. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright CANBERRA, This Day. • Mr J. G. Latham, the Federal Attor-ney-General, in a statement covering the Port of Adelaide waterside disorders, said the Government would not tolerate violence or threats of violence. The Government would not condone crime because it may have been initiated or provoked for industrial purposes. Such method would not succeed with this Government. It was equally futile for the Waterside Workers’ Federation to complain that the trouble arose from the employment of foreigners. The fact remained that the Federation had more members of foreign origin in its ranks than any other Union. The Government, however, would see no unfair discrimination was exercised by employers in this direction.

STEAMERS IDLED. FOUR DECLARED “BLACK.” (Received Wednesday, 10.60 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. Two ships arc now idle, as the result of a dispute between the Port Adelaide branch of the Seamen’s Union and the Adelaide Steamship Company, the Quonia and the Nalpa. The crew of a third vessel has given notice. The central executive of the Miners’ Federation has instructed the men employed at two of the Broken Hill collieries to cease work in sympathy with the Newcastle seamen, who have declared the company’s four steamers “black.”