SHIPPING STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 94, 14 January 1921, Page 5

SHIPPING STRIKE

NO SIGNS OF SETTLEMENT

STRANDED NEW ZEALANDERS By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. January 13, 11.5 p.m.) Sydney, January 13. There are no signs of a settlement of the shipping strike, both sides refusing to negotiate except on their own terms. Most of the companies are giving their staffs their annual holidays. Five hundred stranded New Zealanders held a meeting at the Town Hall, at which Mr. Blow stated that he had cabled to the New Zealand Government asking that a steamer be sent to transport the stranded people, and had received a reply asking him to try to persuade the Union Company to carry as many as possible on the Manuka and the Moeraki, but no mention was made of a Government steamer. He presumed that one would not be sent, and added that the Government would edntinue to provide for immigrants brought out under the overseas settlement scheme, but help for other necessitous cases would only be given very sparingly. Three hundred New Zealanders have departed on the Manuka, leaving about seven hundred held up. Indignation is expressed at the Union Company granting passages to Americans on the Tofua, in preference to New Zealanders. It is expected that 350 of tho latter will sail on the Moeraki on January 20.—Press Assn. SHIPS’ OFFICERS - GWEN NOTICE Newcastle, January 13. The shipowners have given the officers a month's notice. —Press Assn. TRANSPORT WORKERS’ CONFERENCE Melbourne, January 13. Nothing definite resulted at the Transport Workers’ Conference. It is suggested that Mr. Hughes should act as mediator at a round-table conference.— Press Assn.