FREE LABOUR TO BE USED.
DECISION BY OWNERS.
(AUSTRALIA* AND W.i. CASLB 1BSOC1ATIOK.)
(Received December 7th, 1.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, December 6.
After the shipowners' conferences today an announcement was made on their behalf to-night that aa the watersiders continued to refuse to work under the conditions of th£ award, they had no alternative but to eall for other labour.
The door, however, is still left open. The owners will not take a decisive step until the decision of the Arbitration Court conference called by Judge Beeby for to-morrow forenoon is known. If this should prove futile, the owners will then proceed to engage free labour. It is understood that before this decision was reached all the State Premiers were consulted by wire, and assurances received that in the ©vent of free labour being called in, the necessary protection would be forthcoming. This decision could not be acted upon at once, and it will take some days probably to assemble and regulate the non-unionists. It is stated that the Sydney owners are fully ready to follow any step taken in Melbourne.
PICK-UP QUESTION.
STATEMENT BY OWNERS. . (AUSTRALIA* AND H.Z. CAULS ASSOCIATION.) SYDNEY;, December 0.
A statement issued by the Joint Committee of the Oversea and Commonwealth Shipowners' Association emphasises that the cause Of the Btriko was not confined t6 the dispute regarding one or two pick-ups. "The position," it states, "has become intolerable owing to the lawlessness of the Union during the past three years, and tho owners have been forced at laßt to tie-up their ships." It contends that by using the one pick-up question as a convenient red herring to draw aoross the Union's trail, the Watersiders' Federation is Btrlving to divert attention from many other flagrant breaches of the award, by harrowing the issue in this way from the general non-observanoe of the award to one specific matter. The Federation is hoping: to find a way out of general compliance.
LABOUR LEADERS CONFER.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19177, 7 December 1927, Page 11
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