SEAMEN’S.STRIKE ENDS

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19664, 26 August 1935, Page 8

SEAMEN’S.STRIKE ENDS

ACTIVITY ON WATERFRONT

OWNERS’ LOSSES £30,000.

NO DISCRIMINATION IN SELECTION

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SYDNEY, Aug. 25. Full activity has been restored on the waterfront. At a mass meeting attended by 1500 yesterday morning the seamen decided by an overwhelming majority to. accept the owners’ terms. The decision was received with cheers.

The Wanganella sailed for Auckland at 8 . o’clock last evening.

It is estimated that the shipowners' losses in the strike totalled £30,000, while the seamen’s loss of wages amounted to several thousands of pounds. The terms offered by the owners were that, subject to the union and its members declaring the strike off and offering for all ships in terms of the existing agreement between the owners and the union, all owners would instruct their picking-up officers to select suitable men for the immediate manning of ships, whether the men had very good, good or indifferent discharges arising out of the present trouble, and that they be selected without discrimination. The Government Gratified, The acting-Federal Attorney-Gen-eral Mr T. C. Brennan, in a message from 'Melbourne, said the Government was gratified that the strike was over There was a minority of Communists among the seamen and proof existed that they had been very active on this occasion. “ No doubt,” he added, “ we owe a great deal to the wives of the seamen whose influence was almost certainly on the side of commonsense.” The James Patrick Company’s steamer Carlisle, manned by a volunteer crew, sailed late on Friday night for Melbourne.

FREIGHTER SAILS. CAUSE OF THE DISPUTE.' United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Aug. 26, 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Aug. 26. The freighter Murada, about which the. shipping dispute originated, will leave to-day for South Australia. Crews for other vessels will also be secured to-day.

Premier of Western Australia, who has been taken to task by the acting-vice-consul for Italy for opinions expressed on the Italo-Abyssinian dispute.