SHIPPING HOLD-UP

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 75, 22 December 1920, Page 7

SHIPPING HOLD-UP

RIYERINA'S STEWARDS TO TENDER

NOTICES

CUTTING COMMUNICATION WITH NEW ZEALAND

(By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyrlrlit

Sydney, December 21. The stewards of the steamer liirerina intend to tender their notices on AYednesday. This will completely cut off communication with New Zealand. Many New ZealanderS aro stranded. Mr. Monto, secretary of the Stewards' Union, replying to Mr. Justice Higgius, states that the Judge is only heaping coals of tiro. i« viden the breach. He recently suggested that'the union should take a. plobiscito to ascertain whether the. members should be allowed to settle their own dispute or not.

It is understood that, as an outcome of the strike, the owners will endeavour to abolish tipping.---Press Assn. |'Mr. Justice Higgins issued a warning in the Arbitration Court that he would ■iot hesitate to withdraw the protection of tho Court from a union which takes all au award gives, and strikes for tb» rest of its demands-'! EXTENSION TO INTER-STATE VESSELS POSSIBLE STEWARDS PEEP ABED FOR SYDNEY STRIKE. CRec. December 22, 1.5 a.m.) Sydney, December 21. There is now a possibility of thd strike extending during the next few days to all inter-State vessels. The stewards state that they""will be able to carry on this strike for a long period, the union being financially strong, as months ago a ten shilling levy was struck in anticination of o strike.—Press Assm. IMMIGRANTS FOR NEW ZEALAND STRANDED (Rec. Decembor 22, 1.5 a.m.) Sydney, December 21. Forty or fifty ex-service immigrants, •with their wives and families, en route to New Zealand, stranded us a result of the strike, have been granted an allowance by the New Zealand Government office .to enable them to live until they can continue the voyage. Comparatively few visiting New Zealanders and cases of financial difficulty have been reported yet.—Press Assn. i ■ MANUKA ANNOUNCED TO SAIL TO LEAVE FOR "WELLINGTON TO-MORROW. (Ree. December 22, 1.5 a.m.) Sydney, December 21. The Union Company announces that the Manuka will sail for Wellington' on Thursday—Press Assn. TASMANIAN MEN'S DISPUTE SHIPOWNERS REJECT GOVERNMENT'S OFFER. , ' Melbourne, December 21.' The shipowners liuvo sent a communication to Mr. Hughes, rejecting the oft'er of' tho Tasmanian Government, oil the grounds that it will only tend to perpetuate the trouble. —Press Assn. • [The Tasmanian Government recently offered to concede the demands ill Ihu local seumen's dispute, for a limited period. | ■ '

AGREEMENT WITH SEAMEN'S UNION WITHDRAWN MOEKART DISPATCHED I'Olt HOBART. (Itoc. December i\, 9.35 p.iu.) Sydney ; December • 21. It is estimated that two thousand marine stewards are on strike, und tho numbers are daily increasing. :V cablo message lias been received from the Marine Stewards' Federation in England offering to support the Australian Union. 'i'lve Union Company, dispatched tho Mceraki for Hobart this aftervoon. The stewards did not give notice, as the vessel was ready for sea before it could have expired. Following the strike of stewards, the Tasmu'nian coastal owners have withdrawn the agreement made with tho Seamen's Union. The latter now threaten to cut oft' ail steamer services fr«ra Sydney and Melbourne and Tasmania.—Press Assn.

EVERYTHING NORMAL AT WELLINGTON.

It appears il\at the" Chvistclnirch message whiclr stated that a conference was to be held in "Wellington on.Monday was incorrect, as Mr. W. A. Kennedy (malinger for the Union Steam Ship Company) yesterday informed a reporter that no conferoncc had-been held or was to liavo been lield. The Maori got away for Lyttelton, as usual, last evening, and up to the present nothing lias occurred in "Wellington to .indicate-a possibility of the extension of the' trouble to this port. The Arbitration Court lias not yet delivered its decision on the union's application for a bonns of £2 a month.