MONTEREY SAILS

Evening Star, Issue 21748, 16 June 1934, Page 12

MONTEREY SAILS

UNLOADED BY VOLUNTEER LABOUR NO TROUBLE [Per United Press Association’.] AUCKLAND, June 15. With the ship’s band playing and all her cargo.for Auckland discharged, the Monterey sailed for Sydney at 10 o’clock to-night. A number of the crowd on the waterfront “ booed ” two or three times as the vessel’s ropes were cast off and went through the process known as “ counting out,” but the sound was not heard at the Monterey’s berth. After dark the beams of a searchlight on the vessel were trained on the wharf gates and the part of the waterfront where the crowd had gathered. The work of unloading was completed with time to spare, the voluntary workers who assisted the crew being taken home from the wharf in motor ears. The crowd was not aware that they had gone, although they had to make way for the cars as they passed through the gates.- Taxi cabs conveying the passengers and their friends plied freely to and from the wharf. Apart from the number of police in evidence the scene at the vessel’s departure was no different from, usual. The strict watch kept on tTie vessel s gangway by company officials throughout the day was maintained until the gangway was removed. Only officials, passengers, and friends were aboard. By 10.20 p.m., when the Monterey was heading downstream, the crowd had dispersed from the waterfront without any untoward incident. _ . Private advice has been received in Auckland that there is no sign of a settlement of the waterfront dispute in San Francisco. Owing to the uncertainty, of the position the Union Company’s cargo steamer Waiherao, after being idle at San Francisco for over three weeks, was to sail from that port to-day for Auckland. The vessel was to have loaded at a number of American ports on the Pacific Coast, but she is bringing cargo only from Canada. The company’s steamer Wairuna was also to have loaded at Pacific Coast ports, but owing to the strike she loaded only at Vancouver. She is to leave there on Monday for Auckland.

SYDNEY RECEPTION UNCERTAIN Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, June 15. The maritime workers held a meeting which was attended by ships’ cooks and butchers, seamen, deckhands, and firemen, but not by waterside workers. No definite decision was reached. A prominent unionist stated that there did not seem to be any likelihood of an extension of the trouble with the arrival of the Monterey, but he would not answer' for what might happen when the Mariposa arrived, when the Waterside Workers’ Union will determine its attitude. A message from Melbourne states that Trades Hall officials there do not anticipate any trouble on the Australian waterfront as a result of the Sydney Labour Council’s decision: declaring the Monterey 11 black.”