STEWARDS' STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 81, 30 December 1920, Page 5

STEWARDS' STRIKE

RECOMMENDATION OF TRANSPORT WORKERS REJECTED

ONLY TWO AVENUES FOR RECONCILIATION 8y Telegraph—Press Association—OopyrighJ Sydnoy, December 29. Tho recommendation of tho .Transport Workers' Federation was rejected by a mass meeting of stewards, who now state that there aro only two avenues for reconciliation—a conference with the shipowners, or the appointment of a special tribunal. The coastal shipowners will meet the strikers' representatives on Tuesday. The inter-State owner,, are maintaining an attitude pf' "no compromise" and insist on tho men resuming unconditionally before a conference is held—Press Assn. PROSPECTIVE SAILINGS FOR NEW ZEALAND GREAT NUMBER OF VESSELS IDLE. Sydney, December 29. Only those stewards who are on Australian articles left the Moeraki. About a dozen on' New Zealand articles are expected to stand by. The company announces that the Moeraki will <oil for Wellington to-morrow. Efforts will also be mado to dispatch the Moana and the Maheno, as some of their crews are on Now Zealand articles. . As tho crews of various resso's are paid olf, t'he ships aro tied up in the stream. An ' enormous amount of tonnage is already idle in Sydney and New castie; and in Melbourne, it is estimated, 40,000 tons are idle.—Press.Assn.