OFFER OF UNIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16634, 27 October 1925, Page 5

OFFER OF UNIONS.

COAL FOR REFRIGERATORS.

AN INSISTENT PREMIER

PROTECTION FOR WORKERS

(United Press. Association.) Received October 27, 12.30 p.m. BRISBANE, October 27

The Brisbane Transport Union's Strike Committee has informed the owners, through the Premier, that it is willing to allow union labour to sipply coal to keep the refrigerators working In all ships. The committee slated that it did not want to make the overseas shipping strike the basis for a general strike, and made the offer in the hope that the shipowners and farmers would recognise that the overseas seamen, while determined to enforce their demands, were not going to be drawn into a general strike. It is understood the offer is conditional on the owners agreeing not to institute further prosecutions against the strikers.

The owners' representatives have cablet! to London for instructions, and in the meantime the farmers have deferred loading coal into the Mahia at Gladstone until Wednesday night. Tim Premier, in a Statement after an interview with the strikers' committee, said he had emphasised that coal must be supplied for the refrigerators, and he bad suggested if an arrangement could be made it would not affect tin; ultimate result of the strike, and if I lie owners look legitimate steps to supply coal the Government would be compelled lo give them police protcct'on.

MORE MEN IMPRISONED. LOCAL CREWS. PERTH, October 27. All the members of the crew of the Apolda, with the exception of the three charged with impeding navigation and damaging the vessel, were sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. MELBOURNE, October 27.

The crews of the Berima, Sophocles Liogeses, and Oronsay still refuse to join the strikers, despite the latters' daily efforts to embroil them In the dispute.