STRIKE OF SEAMEN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 194, 12 May 1919, Page 6

STRIKE OF SEAMEN

• ON QUEENSLAND COAST EXTENSION OF TROUBLE FEARED {Bee. May 11, 5.5 p.m.) Brisbane, May 11. Tho influenza visitation line brought the shipping trouble, which has been brewing for some' time, to .1 head. At the time of the New Zealand visitation tlie crews manning vessels trading to infected ports vera granted special rates. Offing to the shipping companies refusing to concede these rates ii Queensland branch''of the Federated Seamen s Union has doclnred a. strike on the whole of the Queensland ■ coast. Appeals have been made for support in tho southern States. It is feared Jiero and in the other Mates that tho trouble will extend throughout Australia, us the unrest amongst seamen is general.. . , I -fiie strike has Tender*! idle a. number of intercolonial steamers, which, however, will be allowed to return to their home parts.—Press Assn. TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT -+ POWERFUL BRITISH BIPLANE KNTJ3RED. (Rec. May 11, 5.5 p.m.) ■ London, May 5. Viokers, Ltd., have entered another 'biplane for the trans-Atlantic night. It oarriee two standard 350-horse-power Rolls-Royoe ongines, has. a petrol capacity of 865 gallons, and its speed exceeds a hundred miles an. hour. The'pilot will be Captain ,J. Alcock, wlio served in Turkey, and who will alee the aeroplooie to Newfoundland— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MISHAP TO AN AMERICAN MACHINE. New York, May 9. The missing naval plane descended into the sea off the Massachusetts coast. The airmen were rescued.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.