SHIPPING TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1925, Page 3

SHIPPING TROUBLE.

[Australia ,V N.Z. Cable Association] TRANSPORT GROUP AID. SYDNEY. August 25. A meeting of the British seamen declined to declare all those members of ~.e crew's not off tin; ships hv five last night blacklegs tor all time, iiie.pectivv of wlmt attitude they might later adopt. A meeting of the Transport Group pledged itself to do all in its power lo assist the oversea seamen. It recommended that no British ship arriving in Australia be worked till tbo owners acceded to the demand. A suggestion is freely discussed that Walsh intends to return to England to endeavour to obtain control ot the English Union. In this event the control of the Australian Union would pas- to Johansen. NOT BOLSHEVIKS. (Received this day at 40.25 a.m.) LONDON. August 24. Headquarters of the Seamens’ and Firemens' Union said all the ships affected by the trouble in the London docks had sailed. No men had left their ships. An official of the Tilbury Branch said : “Our fellows are good men, and are acting very decently and there is nothing Bolshevik about them." A QUIET PORT. AUCKLAND, August 25. Four steamers in port to-day were worked by the watersiders. There is no sign of the seamen or firemen trouble. Everything is quiet on the waterfront.