SHIPPING TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1925, Page 1

SHIPPING TROUBLE.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

LABOUR VIEWS. SYDNEY, July 13

The Trades and Labour Council decided to boycott the American Fleet on its visit to Sydney. It was also decided to distribute literature in protest against the treatment- meted out by the New Zealand authorities to Noel Lyons.

COAST SHIPPING RESUMES. SYDNEY, July 13. 'Tlie restoration of coastal shipping services is assured as the result of the response received hy shipowners to the call for volunteer crews. Already several coasters have been dispatched. The men are all qualified seamen and lire men, most of whom have been out of employment for a long time. Some were British seamen who were forced out of work because the local union refused to allow them to enter the ranks on arrival in Australia. Loading is being done by the AVatcrsiders federation. Discussion regarding the possibility of the State Governments running an inter-State lines is proceeding, stated Air Lang. He added West Australian Labour which was so vitally concerned in shipping matters, was eager for the adoption of tlie proposal. MELBOURNE. July IP. 'l'he Navigation Bill and Immigration Bill passed all stages in iho Federal Parliament. To complete this task, Iho representatives sat continuously, except for meal adjournments, for forty and a-half hours. During the same time the Senate sat twenty-seven and a-half hours. Parliament has now adjourned till after the departure of the American Fleet. SO ACE FREE LABOUR. SYDNEY, July If). Pending Tuesday’s conference at AI• -1 - bourne, there are no developments in the shipping strike. The whole of the inter-State trade is now practically at a stand still, bill there are con.slnl services being maintained bv free labour. MELBOURNE. July It). Air Holloway, Secretary of the Trades Hall Council, states that both the owners and seamen are prepared for a settlement. He believes that guarantees will he given at Tuesday’s con ferenoo that the unionists v.ill make no further trouble. HOBART’, July 19. Tlie Riveriua sailed for Sydney five firemen short. Just before her departure it was discovered that three ot the firemen were missing. Iho officers and engineers scoured the city and suburbs in motor cabs searching for the absentees. They found one, and took him aboard. Then, to prevent, the remainder of the crew from leaving the ship, the gangway was cut away with an axe, and tlie officers and stewards east off the lines, the crew refusing to touch a rone.

XlA<! All A\S TRIP. AT’OKLAXI). .Tuly IS. 'l'lie liner Niagara, duo on Momliiy from Vancouver. duos not no on to Sydney, owing to the shipping strike, lint- returns to Vancouver on her schedule date. nrxK.nrx TUorßuc. DIJXKDIX, duly 11'. Vesterdtiy four vessels were idle in port, eonsei|Ue)it on the watersiders not responding To unload the Newcastle coii 1 on the Katvatiri. The position on tin* waterfront remains unchanged. A call was made at 7.15 a.m. on Saturday for labour lor the collier Kawatiri, when a I a rue number of waterside workers were present, hut there was no response. There are live vessels now idle, the Kawitiri. W’anaka. Kamo. Breeze and Kola re. . The Kmploycrs’ representatives asked i) M . Ch,ion to meet them in a coniolon Saturday morning. Ai this ennl'ereiieo, the rcpresonlnl ives ol the IT,ion stated that the groat majority iif ip, members had decided not to depart from the position they had adopted in regard to this statement, no further progress was made Inwards a settlement of the lrouble. The employers stale that, so far as they know. Xewcnstle coal is being worked at other ports in New Zealand at the rate of pay prescribed in the award. The contention of the employers is that in the present instance there is no dispute technically. The proper course limy state, is for the men to start work ami then, if tliev have a complaint, they have a right to refer the matter, in the form of a dispute, to the local Itisputes (Committee.