CONFERENCE REFUSED.
DOOMED FROM THE OUTSET. WALSH ON THE STRIKE. FACTIONAL STRIFE IN UNIONS. (United Press Association.) MELBOURNE, March 16. The members of the committee of management of the Seamen's Union Interviewed the shipowners to-day. They'asked them to agree to the men holding a stop-work meeting to discuss the internecine dispute in the union.
The owners agreed after the members of Ihe committee had pointed out that owning to the internecine dispute the trouble on the coastal vessels in New South Wales was becoming very grave and was now threatening to involve the inter-State shipping. At the stop-work meeting the members of the committee and the president of the union, Tom Walsh, told the men that the coastal strike in New South Wales had been deliberately engineered without the sanction of the responsible officials of the union. They said it was doomed to failure from the outset.
They further alleged that the Johnson faction of the union was delibately endeavouring lo involve interstate ships. Part of their i-lan was to embarrass the Federal officials. A serious position could be averted if common sense and solidarity prevailed among the seamen.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16750, 17 March 1926, Page 7
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