WANT FIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 235, 4 October 1928, Page 7

WANT FIGHT.

EXTREMIST TALK.

Strike Position In Australia Indefinite.

CREWS PAID OFF.

(Received 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. The conference of the maritime onions wag adjourned last night nntil to-day. Although no official statement has teen issued setting out the conclusions of the sub-committee appointed to consider the motion to extend the strike and the strictest secrecy*- has otherwise been maintained, it is ascertained that there will be uncompromising hostility to any unionists applying for licenses under the Transport Act. The plans proposed by the sub-com-mittee are for a possible extension only, and for vesting power in the Council of Trades Unions, and in the councils of action to be appointed in each State, to carry on the dispute. An inflammatory speech was made by Mr. Garden. He said the delegates did not want negotiations, but fight. This was coldly received. The feeling of the conference seemed to be that there should be a way to avoid a general upheaval, and that final and binding decisions should be delayed. Four hundred striking waterside workers made a march through the city to the Trades Hall. There they awaited the conclusion of the conference of maritime unions. In the meantime the strikers helcP a meeting and passed resolutions. One asked that the slogan of the Council of Trades Unions should be: "No licenses on the waterfront." Another expressed indignation at the presence of the strong force of police, which had accompanied the men throughout their march, and a third demanded the right of peaceful picketing. No Hope of Victoxy. In the course of a speech at Brunswick, Mr., Frank Anstey, M.P. (Lab., Bonike) advised the waterside strikers to go back to work and to "make it lively on the job for volunteers." He said there was no possible hope of victory for the strikers now. It was worse than madness for men to strike when there were other men, driven by the force of hunger, ready to take their places. The dfrect actionist was never in a worse position to achieve victory than in,a period of unemployment, which had been so prevalent of late. The police yesterday raided the headquarters of the Communist party in Melbourne. They seized certain documents and literature. The shipowners have decided to pay off the crews of eight vessels to-day. This is only a temporary policy, due to the uncertainty of the attitude of other unions. Five waterside rioters were sentenced to • month's imprisonment at Brisbane. The Home Secretary announces that all meetings of watersiders and other persons in public places will not be allowed hereafter. Free labourers resumed work on all ships at Port Adelaide this morning. The workers were taken from the city direct to the wharves in steel vans. They will return by special train under the protection of a strong police force. Every precaution is being taken against civil disturbance. The bolts have been withdrawn from the rifles and Lewis guns, and the locks from the machine-guns, in all the drill halls and military depots. The parts have been placed under guard at' the military barracks. A special Government gazette has been issued ordering the registration of all firearms. Union carters, who carted wool from the stores to the wharves this morning ceased work this afternoon. Apparently they fear individual molestation rather than instruction from their union. The master carters are endeavouring to carry on. Bomb at Brisbane. A bomb exploded at the home of Mr. Frederick Gilmore, chairman of the South Johnstone sugar-cane mill at Innisfail, early this morning. Considerable damage was done. The inmates' of the house were all asleep at the time. They were not injured. Policemen, aided by black trackers, are investigating the outrage.

SEAMEN JOIN IN.

BEHIND THE WATERSIDERS. (Received 11.30 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. The seamen met at the Trades Hall and decided to stand behind the waterside workers as in South Australia and Victoria. The shipowners' representatives, at Brisbane to-day are making a call for volunteer seamen for three inter-State idle vessels.

FEELING IN LONDON.

OWNERS TO STAND FAST.

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, October 3. The Shipowners' Committee is holding a meeting, which is likely to last all day. It is understood to be a foregone conclusion that it will instruct the Australian .Committee to decline to meet the unions until there is an unconditional acceptance at all ports of the new waterside workers' award. The general feeling in London shipping circles is that it is imperative to make a stand and end for all time the irritation and dislocation to which the unions persistently subject shipping.