THE SHIPPING STRIKE
A MESSAGE FROM WALSH
MAKURA AND KAKAPO MEN
SIGN OFF
(By Telegraph-Press Association-OoDyright (Bee. August '4, 10.10 p.m.) Melbourne, August 4. A mass meeting of the seamen was suddenly convened to consider a. message from Walsh, intimating that he didn't desire his imprisonment to 'stand in the seamen's way of accepting the Government's offer of a round-table conference. The meeting resolved not to negotiate for a settlement through anyone else but Walsh.—Press Assn.
MAKURA AND KAKAPO LOSE THEIR CHEW a. Sydney, August 4. It is unofficially stated that as tho articles of tho crew of the Makura expi re to-day, the men have decided to' ioin tho strikers.—Press Assn. 1 (Rec. August 4, 10.10 p.m.) Sydney, August 4. Tho crews of the Makura and Kakapo have been paid off.—Press Assn. FAMINE FEEDING AT CAIRNS. Brisbane, August 4. As the result of the flour shortage, caused by the shipping strike, the people in Cairns have been compelled to consume bread mado of pollard—a product closely resembling caked sawdust.—Pa-ess Assn. LOI'ALIST-MANNED STEAMER DESTROYED. Melbourne, August 4. The small steamer Wauchopo, manned by loyalists, lying in quarantine, has been totally destroyed by fire.—Press Assn. EXTREMIST LABOUR'S PROGRAMME 1 Sydney, August i. A conference of the extremist section of (.he Labour Party passed a resolution recommending tho formation of a new party having as its object the establishment of a co-operative Commonwealth, in which organised workers should own and control the entire means for the production of wealth, such production to bo for use, not profit. It also decided not to run candidates at tho next elections, being at present purely a propaganda party.—Press Assn. '
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 265, 5 August 1919, Page 7
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274THE SHIPPING STRIKE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 265, 5 August 1919, Page 7
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