OWNERS TIE UP SHIPS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19173, 2 December 1927, Page 9

OWNERS TIE UP SHIPS.

YHE WATERSIDE

DISPUTE.

»IG STOPPAGE BEGINS.

2000 SEAMEN AFFECTED,

MUSS AMOCIATIOS-COmiGHT.) (It «"*".-.„ „. Z . CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

reived December Ist, 11.30 p.m.)

MELBOURNE, December 1. . jombined conference of the OverRepreaentatives' Associ- • »nd the Commonwealth steamship to-day issued the following |rt ' est: "As it had been clear l v aP<,W! that the Wharf Labourers' f"! *nd its members will not comply r.H the terms and conditions of all "J. airreoments, and decisions of Tltaird of Reference, work on all *£ in all ports is to cease toittitatement, however, docs not • to the Tasmanian services, which ■«M be maintained. It means that i„ o'clock to-night all steamers, iCmeas and inter-State, with the Mol the Commonwealth and "STiineg and the Tasmanian serZ be tied up in cvery porfc in i n2 estimated that between seventy ~|.uy inter-State steamers will bo iidle, and some 2000 seamen and returned to their home \1 Shipping companies trading S Bt«* M are outside the dispute.

HBf OFFERING IN SYDNEY. POSITION NOT CLEAR.

UuHJ-niM ABSOCIATIOK—COPTWOHT.) 'JLuaa A!o> V.Z. CABLS ASSOCIATION.) •aeiwd.December Ist, 9.40 p.m.)

SYDNEY, December 1. ftm v as no lack of wharf labourers fritg »t the early pick-ups in Syd- - this morning, and they orally exLd willingness to work overtime. Sitrength of these promises they -uDowed to start work. They have ,bil opportunity of honouring their naist to-mght, and should they rein the struggle will begin in earnest wrar morning, v when shipowners iJWnitely enforce the agreements, hihte of the men to observe the pements will mean that all ships will 1 ueting of the Sydney watersiders iia endorsed all the actions of the Menl Waterside Workers' ManageB» Committee. After the meeting fcfarie, secretary of the Sydney talk of the Federation, stated that iwtotild certainly be no loading or JkWJiOK of cargo after five o'clock i&lting such a development, lldtairths have decided to lay up the itaj* Karoola, which is engaged in ittpfcenger trade to Australia. Nofct TO iGo given to the three Adeh&Caapanrs vessels, the Ulooloo, the Aldinga, to pay ot Mi ««ws to-moirow. The Henri Ml Inter-State passenger liner WimiJH pay off upon arrival in WjfflTO afternoon. The passenger fa Melbourne have been can"W The tame . company's cargo rtuff'SlTOiil paying off to-morrow. Ii Melbourne a few men offered at fetyi pickups, and not one offered |»»ofk on the conditions enforced by »• owners. When the steamer Delta arrived from Sydney, five gangs «f nen accepted the owners' terms and Wmenced unloading, but it is underitood that they have no intention of winning. fij e crews of the collier wptara and the steamer Mildura have •w given notice.

MS AGAINST STRIKERS.

OPINION IN LABOUR CIRCLES,

"Wiimi UTS W.I. CABL» ASSOCIATION.)

SYDNEY, December 1. Officials at the Trades Hall express "•opinion that the strike will be "Wired, and will probably result in ? New of the Wntersiders' Federals "P'tulating, as the odds against V™ 1 are overwhelming. ,'«i m«n fear that if they continue SS?,* 0 7 0rk overtime, a call will !■■» for free labour and with the S2? •5J OMt 0 Mt of unemplovment the „£? WUI experience no difficulty in gvolunteerstodothework. C , J nje / nbers of the Seamen's »a2i i j I e^ nse to mnn inter-Stato flSLirl 1 * volunteers, it is whether the crews of overtriC .TT 1 ? grcc to support the %»> M the local wharf labourers lE? » support them during the '"• *wnen's strike two years ago.

°*NBRS MEET IN LONDON.

FOR FIRM STAND STRESSED.

UU *» AM) j.j. CABLB A ggoojATION.) December Ist, 7.5 p.m.)

k to* • LOJfIK)N > November 30. ijj** tm ß of representative British owners and managers in Lon- , »nsidered the Australian ira4, • ? Dd «ache<l the conclusion that q e ry°n of the watersiders has reT" which bea " no re,a " W warda w orders of Arbitration ?oiilJ 0 ?P?! ,Ie » Poiut out that they J«»lrdis i£ for the due recognition E *«i ».».," matt€r as a refusal Ski ,""««» to load butter S^Ju-S dMy in a " inter " tWlnl V he «rou™\ that they !*»u?k.T h<lther ;t wa» declared contrary to the w»*i2! lndu . strial Court. Hence S^^T!^, Jt ess€ntial to i.^«2L?°f l ,u futlir * be worked bv *? >, l anoe witn the terms °? th * Courts. WATERFRONT IDLE.

*»» ■■« f*BLI USSUCUTION I Jke December 1. >]Jrn rrotn t is idle following the JjW. T Wtersidere to K ive an Mswati, to observe the awards and EL**^"* lß ar « «dle, as a reS? th.U™ carrying firms having SMthY!? m P , ?yees several days' wnwnation of their era-