MARITIME DISPUTE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9853, 5 November 1924, Page 5

MARITIME DISPUTE

FORTY-SEVEN SHIP'S STEWARDS DiSAIiSSED. SERIOUS TROUBLE THREATENED. SYDNEY, Nov. ■!. There is a. serious dispute threatened owing to the dismissal of fortyseven stewards from the Commonwealth liner Aloreton Bay. On her last voyage home two passengers became insane. The captain ordered the chief steward to tell off a steward to keep watch over each ol the patients, lhe stewards as a body refused to carry out the order. It was decided to take no action till the vessel returnee; to Australia. An inquiry was held, but, no representative of the stewards was invited to attend, and the full complement of effective stewards was, dismissed.— U.P.A.

SEVERAL VESSELS TO BE LAiD

SYDNEY, Nov. I. As the result of the watersiders’ overtime strike, several cargo steamers will lie laid up immediately, and in order to avoid otherwise inevitable congestion ir.v nrious ports, it is feared it may lm necessary to lay up

more tonnage. The Trolley and Draymen’s Union has not yet been officially informed of , the watersiders’ action, soul its members arc doing nothing in connection with the trouble.

It is reported that the steamer Ecnidale, of the Commonwealth line, which does not employ bureau labor, .had to refuse a cargo of live hundred tons of wheat because of the attituuo of the wharf laborers. 'This cargo will now be carried by some other vessels and loaded by the bureau ul labor. U.P.A.

MORTON BAY HELD UP. LOADING ON FUR NR ALE STARTS AFTER DELAY. (Received Nov. 4, 8.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 24. Two Commonwealth line steamers, the Mortow Bay and Eerndalc. are. held u]) to-day, the former owing to the refusal of’the marine stewards to supply the places of those dismissed, and the Fermi: lc because the waterside workers declined to load her on the ground of alleged' employment of iion-unon labor aboard. Later in the day. after negotiation's, the loading, of the Ferndale wns started. It is understood the waterside* workers have agreed to withdraw their objections.-—L.P.A.

TURK \T BY SE A TRANSPORT UNIONS. A [ORTON BAY WILL BE “BLACK’’ IF FREE LABOR. USED. (Received Nov. 5, 12.50 a.in.) SYDNEY, Nov. 4. A meeting of the sea transport group of unions resolved that ;f tin* Commonwealth Line employs any free labor in the place oi the stewards who have been dismissed, theAlorton Bav will ho declared “black.”—-U.P.A.