OBDURATE SEAMEN.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16652, 18 November 1925, Page 7

OBDURATE SEAMEN.

FIGHT STILL ON. ANOTHER BROKEN PROMISE. FARMERS MAY GO TO SYDNEY. (United Press Association.) (Received Nov. 18, 9.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, November 18. The crew of the steamer Port Sydney, who arrived by rail to rejoin the ship, decided to continue the strike. A meeting of strikers reversed their previous decision to return to the ships if Labour were defeated at the elections, and decided to continue the fight until their demands were granted. Five seamen from the Northumberland were arrested and charged with disobeying lawful commands. SYDNEY, November 18. Farmers will probably come to Sydney to unload the steamer Corrimal. The marine transport group of unions threaten to declare “ black ” any British ship -which is docked for overhaul. ASSISTANCE FOR THE STRIKERS. FUNDS PRACTICALLY' DEPLETED. SYDNEY, Nov. 17. The secretary of the Marine. Transport group of unions, J. Garden, said to-day that it was extremely unlikely that unionists would agree. to carry out work on vessels which were affected by the strike. Although the strike has not been officially declared off in Sydney men continue to go back to the ships. Thirty more returned to the Themistocles this morning, and the rest are expected to go back shortly. The Labour Council has sent £250 from the local funds for the sustenance of strikers to Melbourne. This has practically cleared the balance in Sydney, but a further instalment is due from the New South Wales branch of lhe Seamen’s Union. The seamen who are meeting and reaffirming their determination to stand firm are from vessels which have sailed. The steamer Corrimal, on her arrival from Bowen, Queensland, was declared “black” by the Waterside Workers’ Federation because Queensland farmers loaded her sugar cargo.