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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19179, 9 December 1927, Page 9

POSITION NOT YET NORMAL.

(AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABU ASSOCIATION.) (Received December Bth, 11.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 8.

Though work has been resumed there will be much delay in reassembling crews and in other directions before the shipping position is normal. In'the case of inter-State ships when crows were paid off, they had to be returned to their home ports, .while overseas owners wero put to the expense of maintaining their crews aboard. All branches of shipping were put to much extra expense. The shipowners estimate that the strike cost them between £150,000 and £200,000.

MEN OFFER READILY.

(AUSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLI ASSOCIATION.)

(Receive/! December 9th, 1.5 a.m.)

SYDNEY, December 8. The waterside workers rolled up in strong force for the afternoon pick-up, and such labour as was required for overtime work was readily obtainable, no objections being raised. The men at all ports appeared pleased) to be back and that a way out of what threatened to be a long spell of idleness has been found.

DISLOCATION WIDESPREAD.

(AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABL* ASSOCIATION.)

SYDNEY, December 8.

The strike has caused such widespread dislocation in intor-State cargo passenger perviees that much tune will elapse before normal trade is restored. In manv instances the crews of vessels have been paid off, and in a number of cases the >»wners may not find 't convenient to re-commission their ships immediately. With tho exception of the Tasmanian •services, which were exempted from the strike, there are now only two in-ter-State passenger vessels in commission

The cargo of the Ulimaroa will he discharged before the vessel's departure to-morrow.

A large proportion of the coal miners who have been made idle through the strike will be unable to resume for several days, while a long period will elapse before some mines in the northern fields are re-started.

LOSS IN WAGES.

(AUSTRALIAN AND If.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

SYDNEY, December 8

Reviewing the enormous loss of wages and industrial dislocation due to strikes Mr McDonald, chairman of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association, said that never in the history of f he State had slackness in Wade been 60 intense. It was assuming proportions that were causing anxiety and alarm to the colliery proprietor. Australia's trade in export coal was dwindling towards extinction. In twelve years from 1913 to 1925 inter-State and foreign shipments fell bv more than 1.000.000 tons, and it was in the natvre of a tragedy that while a great industry was fighting for existence the pits should be made idle on pretexts whicb wcrs unreasonable and often frirulous.