SET AGAINST UNION COMPANY'S BOATS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14832, 25 November 1913, Page 8

SET AGAINST UNION COMPANY'S BOATS.

IMMIGRANTS INCONVENIENCED. (Received November 24th, 9.35. p.m.) SYDNEY. November 24. The latest strike development' is tho refusal of the wharf labourers to unload the Union Company's steamer Karitane's cargo of oats and potatoes from Hobart. The company's regular staff is discharging her, and other batches of regulars are diseharging.tbe Willochra's and Makura's cargoes. Amongst the passengers held up by the non-departure of the Manuka aro 200 immigrants, who .arrived on Thursday by the Orama. The delay is likely to prove a serious drain on the finances of numbers of them. v The Maheno is still lying in the stream. The Seamen's Union is iuclined to consider that the company is keeping her fhere in order to prevent the crew leaving. It is pointed out that their agreement provides that they cannot hand in their resignations until she reaches a place where she loads or unloads her cargo, meaning a wharf. Probably the Makura's crew will be paid off. _ Questioned in regard to a New fiea- • -- land cablegram that unless the Sydney Union manned the Makura a crew would be sent from Duuedin, the sec- .-—; retary of the Seamen's Union stated ,-• that he had no official knowledge of such a cablegram, and had nothing to - - say in the matter. So far the strike had not affected the officers of the Union Company's vessels. The secretary of the Merchant Service Guild says that his organisation has no official knowledge of the dispute, and no communication has passeabetween tho Guild and the men. He added: "We are keeping out of it, a*. least as long as wo can."