SHIPPING STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 98, 19 January 1921, Page 7

SHIPPING STRIKE

UNION LEADERS’ GLOOMY PREDICTION WIDESPREAD EFFECTS OF THE HOLD-UP By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. January 18, 9.30 p.na.) Sydney, January 18. Commenting on the strike situation, the union leaders say they were never more in earnest. They predict a repetition of the 1890 strike on the waterfront, where tho distress is appalling, as for months prior to the stewards* strike there was an absence of work owing to other disputes. Practically every worker in tho State is directly or indirectly affected. —Press Assn. SHIPOWNERS AND SEAMEN GUARANTEE IN REGARD TO MEN’S ACTIONS ASKED FOR. (Rec. January 18, 9.30 p.m.) Melbourne, January 18. It is unofficially stated that ‘lm shipowners have written to the Seamen's Union at Sydney, asking for a certain undertaking in regard to the job control policy adopted by the union since the 1919 dispute. It is understood that the owners asked for some guarantee in regard to future actions and demands by the seamen. This changes tho whole venue of the strike. Even if the stewards effect a settlement it is unlikely that the ships will be manned unless an agreement is reached between the seamen and the owners. —Press Af?sn. MARINE ENGINEERS GIVEN NOTICE. Sydney, January 18. Inter-State steamship owners have given the marine engineers forty-eight hours’ notice that their services will not be required till after the strike is settled. —Press Assn. STRANDED NEWZEALANDERS NUMBER TO BE BROUGHT BY TOFU A. (Rec. January IS, 9.30 p.m.) Sydney, January 18. Tho Tofua, which is duo on Wednesday, will bo dispatched to New Zealand with some hundred stranded New Zealanders and emigrants.—Press Assn.