SHIPPING HOLD-UP.
ATTACK .ON COMMONWEALTH LINE. SYDNEY, Oet, 29. The hold-up of the steamer Volumnin at Fremantle is regarded in shipping circles as a deliberate attempt on the part of the maritime unions to-pi-event the Commonwealth Line from running other than Australian registered. vessels. Owing to the paucity of homeward cargoes, the Commonwealth Line found it necessary to reduce its sailings of cargo steamers from Australia to the United Kingdom. In order, however, to maintain the outward shipments they chartered three British vessels to load for Australian ports. The first or these to arrive is the Yolumma wh.cn. will he handed over to her owners on comnletion of the voyage at Newcastle to load wheat for Home. It is. stated to he the intention of the* union to hold up the other two chartcred steamers, Clan Monoe and Baron MacLav, due in December and January respectively. , A meeting of the branch of the Seamen’s Union deckleu to endorse the resolution of the Sydney body that no overtime be worked. U.P.A,
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9849, 30 October 1924, Page 5
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