THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 253, 21 July 1919, Page 7

THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE

SECRETARY OF UNION HEAVILY FINED Bs Teleerapli--Preßß Aesooiatlon-Oopyricllt (Rec. July 18, 9.30 p.in.) Melbourne, July 18. Wnlsh, the secretary of tho Seamen's Union, has been fined JCIOO for cncournKing tlio coniinuaJico cf the strike. In the courso of a statement, AValsh declared: "Now that poace has been secured, and Austria awl Germany admitted partners of tho League of Nations, no reasonable exouso yan bo offered why wo should not receive financial assistance from Germany in the shape of gold.— Press Assn. AN INFLAMMATORY SPEECH SOVIET GOVERNMENT ADVOCATED. (Rec. July 20, 11.30 p.m.) Melbourne, July 19. Walsh, the secretary of ihe Seamen's Union, who was fined ,£IGO on Friday for encouraging the continuance of tho ■itrite, made an inflammatory speech, in the courso of which ho openly advocated a Soviet Government, and urged the seamen to do everything in (Itir power to throw tho city in darkness, and make it impossible for the civil authorities to do without the Seamen's Union. 11» declared it was the seamen's duty to bring tho hour as close «s possible when it would be unsafe for people to walk out after 7 o'clock at night, Jf tho present conditions continued a revolution would result.—Press Assn. FIJIANS STRANDED IN SYDNEY. Sydney, July 18. A considerable nuii'bor of residents of Fiji, including returned soldiers, are stranded in Sydney owing to Ihe shipping strike.—Press Assn.