AUSTRALIAN WORKERS’ AND SEAMEN’S UNIONS
AMALGAMATION NEGOTIATIONS
REACH A DEADLOCK
(Rec. April" 8, 7.35 p.m.) Sydney, April 8.
Negotiations have been proceeding tor some time between the Australian Workers’ Union and the Federated Seamen's Union, wfui a view to amalgamation. It is now staled that the negotiations have reached a deadlock, owing to the seamen definitely refusing to bar coloured labour from membership of the union.— Press Assn.
SEAMENS PRESIDENT ON THE VALUE OF AGREEMENTS. (Rec. April 8, 7.35 p.m.) Sydney, April 8.
According to an official report of the Australian worWw recent conference, Mr. Walsh, president of the Seamen’s Union, in a speech,' declared that the seamen would not have arbitration. They held, that there was nothing to arbitrate about. They would only accept such compromises as they were driven to. holding to agreements sb long ns suitable, and breaking them as soon as the circumstances of the moment demanded. If revolutionary exigencies demanded it, even the existing constitution of the Seamen’s Union would bo scrapped. Until the Workers’ Union was prepared to accept views similar to the Seamen’s Union there was no hope of the sehmen joining the proposed union,—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 166, 9 April 1921, Page 7
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193AUSTRALIAN WORKERS’ AND SEAMEN’S UNIONS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 166, 9 April 1921, Page 7
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